"Is There Atrazine in Your Drinking Water?"
"For more than 50 years farmers across North America have been spraying atrazine, a pesticide, on crops, mainly corn, applying millions of pounds a year."
Source: Global News, 04/07/2014
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"Senate To Consider Nominee for Top EPA Post"
"A Senate panel is set to consider President Obama’s nominee for a top post within the Environmental Protection Agency this week, which will likely stir up the fight over contentious climate change regulations."
Source: E2 Wire/The Hill, 04/07/2014
"World Running Out Of Time To Stop Global Warming, UN Report Says"
"World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft U.N. study to be approved this week shows."
Source: Reuters, 04/07/2014
"To Strike at Kochs, Democrats Revive Tactic That Hurt Romney"
"After months of wincing in the face of negative ads funded by the industrialists David and Charles Koch, Democrats believe they have finally found a way to fight back: attacking the brothers’ sprawling business conglomerate as callous and indifferent to the lives of ordinary people while pursuing profit and power."
Source: NY Times, 04/07/2014
"Climate Deniers Intimidate Journal into Retracting Paper"
"In February 2013, the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a peer-reviewed paper which found that people who reject climate science are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Predictably enough, those people didn’t like it."
Source: Scientific American, 04/07/2014
Cost Among Hurdles for NY City’s Plan to Phase Out Dirty Heating Oil
"Outside Alicia Barksdale’s living room, high above Upper Manhattan, the brick chimney atop the building next door belches black smoke all winter long, and even into the spring."
Source: NY Times, 04/07/2014
"North Carolina: Judge Denies Shield for Duke Records"
"A North Carolina judge on Friday denied Duke Energy's motion seeking to shield records related to groundwater pollution leaching from 33 coal ash dumps in the state while a separate federal criminal investigation is ongoing."
Source: AP, 04/07/2014
Revised Quake Estimates Pose Costly Analyses for Many Nuclear Reactors
"Owners of at least two dozen nuclear reactors across the United States, including the operator of Indian Point 2, in Buchanan, N.Y., have told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that they cannot show that their reactors would withstand the most severe earthquake that revised estimates say they might face, according to industry experts."
Source: NY Times, 04/07/2014
"Blast at U.S. LNG Site Casts Spotlight on Natural Gas Safety"
"The [March 31] incident at Williams Co Inc's massive gas storage site is a rare safety-record blemish among the dozens of U.S. LNG plants and storage sites, including towering tanks in packed neighborhoods of New York City, and near Boston.
Energy industry experts and opponents of new LNG plants alike said it may spur debate about safe handling of gas for cities increasingly reliant on the clean-burning fuel. At least a dozen new U.S. LNG export facilities are seeking government approval, and some have faced opposition on safety grounds.
Source: Reuters, 04/07/2014
Press, Public Thirsty for Information, But Agencies Turning Off Spigot
People care about the information they get. But the public isn’t getting what it needs from federal and state agencies where, during crisis events and day-to-day operations, agencies work harder at controlling the information that reaches the public than they do at gathering and making it available. Read more from SEJ President Don Hopey.
