"EPA Publishes Carbon Capture Regs"
"The Obama administration on Thursday detailed final regulations easing the path toward technology needed to allow new coal-fired power plants to operate."
Source: The Hill, 01/03/2014
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"A Sharp Rise In Earthquakes Puts Oklahomans On Edge"
"For the past three decades, Oklahoma averaged about 50 earthquakes a year. But that number has skyrocketed in the past few years. In 2013 — the state's most seismically active year ever — there were almost 3,000."
Source: NPR, 01/03/2014
"Climate To Be 2014 Battlefield"
"Climate change and energy will be a major policy battleground in the 2014 midterms, advocates on both sides of the issue promise."
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 01/03/2014
"Crude-Oil Impurities Are Probed in Rail Blasts"
"After three fiery accidents involving trains carrying crude oil out of North Dakota's Bakken Shale, regulators and industry officials are trying to figure out why the oil is exploding."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 01/03/2014
"Humboldt’s Hippie Growers Lament Environmental Damage By Pot 'Miners'"
"Veteran marijuana farmers say newcomers to Northern California’s pot hotbed use toxic, harmful methods to cash in."
Source: Aljazeera, 01/02/2014
"Federal Flood Insurance Program Drowning In Debt. Who Will Pay?"
"Millions of American property owners get flood insurance from the federal government, and a lot of them get a hefty discount. But over the past decade, the government has paid out huge amounts of money after floods, and the flood insurance program is deeply in the red."
Source: NPR, 01/02/2014
"Malawian Farmers Say Adapt To Climate Change Or Die"
"Rain is so important in Malawi's agriculture-based economy that there are names for different kinds of it, from the brief bursts of early fall to heavier downpours called mvula yodzalira, literally "planting rain." For generations, rainfall patterns here in the southeast part of Africa have been predictable, reliable. But not now."
Source: NPR, 01/02/2014
Maryland: "Pipeline May Affect Drinking Water, Activists Fear"
"Environmental activists warn that construction of a 21-mile natural gas pipeline through northern Baltimore and Harford counties could affect the region's drinking-water system, as the $180 million project cuts across more than three dozen streams feeding into Loch Raven Reservoir."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 01/02/2014
"Fukushima Ghost Towns Struggle To Recover Amid High Radiation Levels"
"Post-tsunami reconstruction and radiation cleanup could take 10 years, but officials say something has been permanently lost."
Source: Guardian, 01/02/2014
Brazil Ethanol, Once Thriving, Buffeted By Forces Man-Made, Natural
"ITUMBIARA, Brazil — This should be a golden era here on Brazil’s farming frontier, where some of the world’s biggest corporations have invested billions of dollars in land, equipment and mills to turn sugar cane into ethanol."
Source: Wash Post, 01/02/2014
