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"Arsenic Emissions From Vernon Firm Exide Pose 'Chronic Hazard'"
"Emissions from battery recycler Exide pose a 'chronic hazard' to more than 250,000 people in surrounding areas, air district officials say. Risks include neurological changes in children."
Source: LA Times, 09/06/2013
"Obama Forges Climate Consensus With Nordic Countries"
"STOCKHOLM -- President Obama is now in St. Petersburg, Russia at the G20 economic meeting, but he woke up this morning in Stockholm, where he agreed with Nordic leaders to cooperate on international climate negotiations and clean energy. ..."
Source: ENS, 09/06/2013
"Europe Offers US a Deal, Hoping for Global Rules on Airline Emissions"
"BRUSSELS — Seeking to end years of acrimony, the European Union has made concessions to the United States to try to gain support for global rules on airline emissions."
Source: NY Times, 09/06/2013
In 'Survival' Bid, Island States List Steps To Reduce Greenhouse Gases
"ENEKO ISLAND, Marshall Islands -- Pacific Island leaders today declared that 'climate change has arrived' and called for an urgent phase down of greenhouse gas emissions to save their low-lying homelands from destruction."
Source: ClimateWire, 09/06/2013
EPA Fines Shell $1.1 Million for Pollution Violations in Alaska Arctic
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Royal Dutch Shell affiliates $1.1 million for emitting too many pollutants into the air during the 2012 drilling season offshore in the Alaska Arctic."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 09/06/2013
"Oil & Gas Industry Fears More Deep-Sea Leaks Linked To Drill Fluid"
"LONDON/PARIS -- A corrosive drilling fluid that triggered the North Sea's worst gas leak in 20 years could threaten similar deep-sea wells across the world, and operator Total has already warned Shell that its nearby Shearwater field may be at risk."
Source: Reuters, 09/06/2013
"Ohio River Commission May Relax Mercury Pollution Rules"
"The eight-state commission that sets water quality standards for the Ohio River wants a two-year delay on enforcement of a more stringent mercury standard while it considers relaxing those rules."
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 09/06/2013
"A New Divestment Focus: Fossil Fuels"
"In the 1980s, it was South Africa. In the 1990s, it was tobacco. Now fossil fuels have become the focus of those who would change the world through the power of investing."
Source: NY Times, 09/06/2013
"Exhaust, Diesel Fumes Foul Public Schoolyards Across Washington State"
"More than half a century has elapsed since the Seattle School Board — with nary a raised eyebrow, records indicate — voted to allow one of the nation's biggest and busiest highways to be built cheek-by-jowl with John Marshall Junior High, trading away the school's playground for a larger plot of land nearby."
Source: InvestigateWest, 09/06/2013
