"Coal Plants Smothering Communities of Color, Report Finds"
"New NAACP analysis pinpoints the disproportionate impact from coal-fired power plants on minorities and the poor."
Source: Daily Climate, 11/16/2012
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"Political Support for a Sea Wall in New York Harbor Begins To Form"
"The cost of building sea barriers that would protect New York City and parts of New Jersey from storm surges is likely to run as high as $23 billion, according to the Dutch scientist commissioned by New York City to study how it might respond to the extreme weather events and rising sea levels brought about by climate change."
Source: ClimateWire, 11/16/2012
"Loophole Lets Toxic Oil Water Flow Over Indian Land"
"The air reeks so strongly of rotten eggs that tribal leader Wes Martel hesitates to get out of the car at an oil field on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. He already has a headache from the fumes he smelled at another oil field."
Source: NPR, 11/16/2012
"PG&E Plan To Conduct Underwater Seismic Tests Is Shot Down"
"The California Coastal Commission cites potentially deadly harm to threatened and endangered marine animals in denying PG&E a permit to conduct the tests near the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant."
Source: LA Times, 11/16/2012
"90% Chance 2012 Will Be Warmest Year on Record for US"
"Continuing a hot trend, October was the fifth warmest across the globe since record keeping began in 1880. And climate scientists say it's likely, about 90 percent so, that 2012 will become the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States."
Source: LiveScience, 11/16/2012
"House GOP Leaders Pledge To Oppose Climate Tax"
"The entire House GOP leadership team has registered its opposition to climate legislation that raises revenue, underscoring the long odds that taxing carbon emissions has in negotiations on the fiscal cliff."
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 11/16/2012
"The New Boom: Shale Gas Fueling An American Industrial Revival"
"The shale gas revolution is firing up an old-fashioned American industrial revival, breathing life into businesses such as petrochemicals and glass, steel and toys."
Source: Wash Post, 11/16/2012
"How Safe are America’s 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines?"
"Over the last few years a series of incidents have brought pipeline safety to national – and presidential – attention. As Obama begins his second term he will likely make a key decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed pipeline extension to transport crude from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: ProPublica, 11/16/2012
"Patriot Coal To Phase Out Mountaintop Removal"
"HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Patriot Coal has agreed to phase out mountaintop removal and other forms of strip mining, in a move Patriot officials say is in the best interests of their company, its employees and the communities where it operates."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 11/16/2012
BP's Profits-First Culture Prompts 11 Felony Guilty Pleas, $4.5B Fines
"Citing gross negligence and what it called the company's profits-first culture, the federal government on Thursday announced it had entered into a settlement with BP of all criminal claims stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, fining the company a record $4.5 billion and securing 11 felony pleas from the company for the 11 people killed in the April 2010 blast."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 11/16/2012
