"EPA's Clean Power Plan Will Create Quarter-Million Jobs"
"New study shows that job gains, not the losses the industry predicted, would follow if new carbon rules are implemented."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/22/2015
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"S.F. Board Votes To Ban Wild, Exotic Animal Performances in City"
"If the circus is coming to town, that town won’t be San Francisco under a new regulation that would ban all performances by wild and exotic animals in the city."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 04/22/2015
Japan Court Approves Restart of Reactors, Boosts Abe's Nuclear Policy
"A Japanese court has rejected a legal bid to block the reopening of the Sendai nuclear power station on safety grounds, removing one of the last big hurdles to switching reactors back on after the 2011 Fukushima crisis paralyzed the industry."
Source: Reuters, 04/22/2015
Gatekeeper of Energy East Pipeline Has Mixed Environmental Record
"A company pivotal to Canada's most ambitious oil pipeline project has a mixed environmental record of spills and regulatory warnings, according to government documents reviewed by Reuters, a finding likely to bolster activist opposition to the proposal."
Source: Reuters, 04/22/2015
"Obama to Use Everglades Trip to Press Climate Agenda"
"President Obama on Wednesday will make his first visit while in office to the Florida Everglades, choosing the backyard of a former Republican governor of the state, Jeb Bush, and its Republican senator, Marco Rubio, to demand action on climate change in a critical battleground in the 2016 presidential election."
Source: NY Times, 04/22/2015
"Oklahoma Recognizes Role of Drilling in Earthquakes"
"Abandoning years of official skepticism, Oklahoma’s government on Tuesday embraced a scientific consensus that earthquakes rocking the state are largely caused by the underground disposal of billions of barrels of wastewater from oil and gas wells."
Source: NY Times, 04/22/2015
Workers No Safer 2 Years After West, Texas, Blast: Report
"Do your first responders have the information they need in an emergency?"
Source: In These Times, 04/22/2015
"A Primer on Earth Day Coverage That Doesn’t Suck"
"When The New York Times took note of the first Earth Day in 1970, it made the Times’ front page in an above-the-fold feature photo and a six-column headline pronouncing that 'Millions Join Earth Day Observances Across the Nation.'"
Source: CJR, 04/22/2015
"You Don't Want To Mess With An Angry Mother"
Phyllis Omido, a Kenyan mother, started a campaign to shut down a battery-recycling operation after her 2-1/2-year-old son was diagnosed with lead poisoning. She is one of six recipients worldwide of the prestigious Goldman Prize."
Source: NPR, 04/21/2015
"GOP Chairwoman To Sponsor Bill To Lift Oil Export Ban"
"Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she will introduce a bill this year to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil."
Source: The Hill, 04/21/2015
