"Undecided Voters: Climate Change Matters To Polled Group"
Climate change may be more of a deciding issue in November's election than many analysts realize.
Source: LiveScience, 09/25/2012
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"Decades of Federal Dollars Helped Fuel Gas Boom"
The vaunted "free market" is a fairy tale when energy industries are begging for subsidies from the federal government.
Source: AP, 09/25/2012
"Asbestos Products Still Being Imported To Ontario"
"Despite recent announcements in Ottawa and Quebec that suggest asbestos will soon be a thing of the past, products made of the cancer-causing mineral are still being imported and used in Ontario today."
Source: Toronto Star, 09/25/2012
Woes in VA Coal Fields, Energy Policy Move To Fore in US Senate Race
"COEBURN, Va. — Wearing helmets, headlamps and uniforms streaked with grime, the workers at Paramont Coal sound weary of fighting. They are in the middle of what they call a long-running 'war on coal' that is threatening their livelihood and stoking fury directed at the federal government."
Source: Wash Post, 09/25/2012
"Nuclear Industry Slowed By Its Own Waste"
The political and public relations artifact that is the "nuclear renaissance" may be slowed by the industry's and the government's inability to deal with nuclear waste.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 09/25/2012
Security: Is Exposing Refinery Pollution "Suspicious Activity"?
"As part of his work as a community organizer for environmental causes, Juan Parras takes photos of refineries and petrochemical plants near the Houston Ship Channel. Sometimes, he says he’s made to feel like a criminal for doing it."
Dave Fehling reports for State Impact Texas/NPR September 24, 2012.
Source: State Impact Texas, 09/25/2012
PBB: Michigan Chemical Plant Dumped Poisons, Impacting Town for Years
"ST. LOUIS, Mich. -- The sun sets through the clouds on a late summer afternoon, and a wind brushes through wildflowers on a 52-acre site wrapped by the Pine River, softening the sounds of children in a playground nearby. But the dead robins that drop in Teri Kniffen's yard around the corner and the signs scattered in town bear the evidence of unseen hazards, an alphabet soup of toxicity."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 09/25/2012
"Gas Drilling Protests Held In US, Other Countries"
"PHILADELPHIA -- Demonstrators in the United States and other countries protested Saturday against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking that they say threatens public health and the environment."
Source: AP, 09/24/2012
"As Asbestos Industry Collapses, a Town's Fibre Is Torn"
"The sign by the side of the highway is hard to miss: ASBESTOS. No, it’s not a health warning to motorists about hazardous material ahead. It’s the name of a proud community in southern Quebec, waging a fight to survive in an increasingly lonely stand against the world."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 09/24/2012
"Wind Sprints to the Cliff"
"The wind industry’s main trade association is predicting that new installations will fall to zero without a renewal of the production tax credit, which applies only to projects finished by New Year’s Eve. Since renewal is iffy, some wind machine factories are already shutting down, as my colleague Diane Cardwell reported on Friday."
Source: Green/NYT, 09/24/2012
