"Car Clampdown in Pollution-Hit Paris Hits the Mark"
"Paris enjoyed a rare reprieve from traffic jams Monday as a draconian clampdown on cars, aimed at banishing stubborn levels of smog, took effect."
Source: McClatchy, 03/18/2014
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"High-Tech Power Plant Is $5 Billion Bet on Future of Coal"
"DE KALB, Miss. — Looming like a spaceship over pine and sweet-gum forest, the high-tech power plant under construction in rural Kemper County is a $5 billion wager on an energy future that includes coal."
Source: McClatchy, 03/18/2014
"Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate"
A committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will today release a report warning of the effects of man-made global warming and urging quick action to slow it.
Source: NY Times, 03/18/2014
"Tweak To Law Protected Duke's Coal Ash Pits"
Duke Energy lobbyists asked the GOP-controlled North Carolina legislator for a legal loophole protecting it from having to clean up coal-ash pollution, after environmentalists sued to force clean-up. The legislature obliged, and GOP Gpovernor Pat McCrory signed it.
Source: AP, 03/18/2014
Open Agency? Who's Running EPA?
March 18, 2014 – EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has said she wants to run an open agency. So why do reporters have to wait days — or weeks — to talk to agency sources after they call the press office? As 300,000 residents of Charleston, WV, faced a drinking water crisis in January 2014, it took EPA a week to find an official who could talk to the Charleston Gazette. EPA is supposed to be the main federal agency responsible for enforcing the Safe Drinking Water Act.
"Google Street View Reveals Grand Canyon"
"You’ve used Google’s Street View to navigate unfamiliar cities. Now, you can use it to explore a river."
Source: , 03/17/2014
"Some Refiners Push Back Against Sending More Crude Overseas"
"Amid calls to free up crude oil exports from the United States, debate is brewing among the refining industry over whether to support or oppose the proposal."
Source: EnergyWire, 03/17/2014
"For Imperial Valley Farmers, Abundant Water Amid Drought"
"While some areas of California face supply cutbacks because of the drought, the Imperial Valley has all the water it can use, thanks to senior rights on the Colorado River established decades ago."
Source: LA Times, 03/17/2014
"Acidic Waters Killing Off Millions of Scallops Along the West Coast"
"B.C. fishermen are struggling to deal with catastrophic losses as millions of scallops and oysters are dying off in record numbers along the West Coast -- a crisis experts suggest is being caused by an increase in fossil fuels in the atmosphere, leading to a rise in ocean acidity."
Source: CTV News, 03/17/2014
"Unskilled and Destitute Are Hiring Targets for Fukushima Cleanup"
"NARAHA, Japan — 'Out of work? Nowhere to live? Nowhere to go? Nothing to eat?' the online ad reads. 'Come to Fukushima.'"
Source: NY Times, 03/17/2014
