Climate Change Experts Become An Endangered Species Along the NC Coast
As a rising ocean eats away at North Carolina, a GOP legislature that seems to be driven by politics and profit is also washing away hard science.
Source: ClimateWire, 04/04/2014
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Climate Change Will 'Lead To Battles for Food', Says Head of World Bank
"Jim Yong Kim urges campaigners and scientists to work together to form a coherent plan in the fight against climate change."
Source: Guardian, 04/04/2014
"Exxon Mobil Agrees To Share More Data on Fracking Risks"
"Exxon Mobil Corp, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, has agreed to disclose more information about the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing, the process known as fracking."
Source: , 04/04/2014
Firefighter Training for Crude Oil Train Fires Inadequate: Group
"Citing the sharp increase in the transportation of crude oil by rail, a group told Congress on Wednesday that most of the country’s fire departments lack sufficient training to respond to hazardous materials incidents."
Source: McClatchy, 04/04/2014
"Japan's Biggest Online Retailer, Rakuten, Ends Whale Meat Sales"
"Announcement comes after campaigners shamed company over issue and international court banned Southern Ocean hunt"
Source: Guardian, 04/04/2014
Interior Injection Wells a 'Threat To the Nation's Drinking Water': IG
"The Interior Department has thousands of mismanaged injection wells on federal lands, threatening the nation's underground supply of drinking water, according to a newly released inspector general report."
Source: Greenwire, 04/04/2014
"Wind-Energy Production Credit Breezes Into Tax ‘Extenders’ Bill"
"A tax credit for wind-energy production made it after all into a Senate bill that would revive a host of expired breaks for numerous industries."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 04/04/2014
Monitoring in Fracking Areas Fails To Detect Air Toxic Spikes: Study
"People in natural gas drilling areas who complain about nauseating odors, nosebleeds and other symptoms they fear could be caused by shale development usually get the same response from state regulators: monitoring data show the air quality is fine. A new study helps explain this discrepancy. The most commonly used air monitoring techniques often underestimate public health threats because they don’t catch toxic emissions that spike at various points during gas production, researchers reported Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Reviews on Environmental Health. The study was conducted by the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project, a nonprofit based near Pittsburgh."
Source: InsideClimate & Others, 04/04/2014
"Coast Guard Blasts Shell for Ignoring Risks Over Arctic Rig in 2012"
"SEATTLE — A Coast Guard investigation into the 2012 grounding of the Kulluk, an offshore drilling rig operated by Royal Dutch Shell in the harsh Arctic, blasted the oil company for legal violations, poor management and taking undue risks, according to the final report released Thursday."
Source: LA Times, 04/04/2014
Anadarko Pays Billions in Settling Toxics Case
"HOUSTON — A giant Texas oil company, Anadarko Petroleum, has agreed to pay $5.1 billion for a vast environmental cleanup, a sum the Justice Department said was the largest it had ever won in such a case."
Source: NY Times, 04/04/2014
