"Utility Finds 4 More Natural Gas Leaks in Seattle"
"SEATTLE -- Utility crews have found a total of eight natural gas leaks in the north Seattle neighborhood where a home exploded, injuring two residents in a two-alarm fire."
Source: AP, 09/28/2011
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"How Gibson Guitars Made Illegal Logging a Conservative Cause Célèbre"
"Foreign timber companies, Tea Party groups, and Gibson Guitar have turned illegal logging into Republicans' new cause célèbre."
Source: Grist, 09/28/2011
Obama Administration Delays Federal Fuel-Efficiency Rules
"The federal government plans to delay until mid-November new rules to implement a set of fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks, administration officials said Tuesday."
Source: LA Times, 09/28/2011
CanGEA's Geothermal Power Forum & Reception in Calgary
CanGEA's 4th Annual Conference and Investment Forum will include various panels and presentations by leading speakers from the geothermal energy industry in Canada and internationally.
"U.S. Secretly Asked Japan To Help Dump Nuclear Reactors"
"The United States secretly sought Japan's support in 1972 to enable it to dump decommissioned nuclear reactors into the world's oceans under the London Convention, an international treaty being drawn up at the time."
Source: Asahi Shimbun, 09/27/2011
"Avoiding Global Warming Stories"
"I got a call the other day from some producers I very much admire. They wanted to talk about a series next year on global warming and I thought, why does this subject make me instantly tired? Global warming is important, yes; controversial, certainly; complicated (OK by me); but somehow, even broaching this subject makes me feel like someone's put heavy stones in my head. Why is that?"
Robert Krulwich reports for NPR's Krulwich Wonders blog September 26, 2011.
Source: NPR, 09/27/2011
"Feds Fear for Safety Of PG&E's Gas System"
"SAN BRUNO -- Much of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s natural-gas transmission system could be at risk of catastrophic failure, but the company's record-keeping system is so flawed that the true danger is impossible to determine, federal investigators said Monday in their final report on last year's San Bruno disaster."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 09/27/2011
"New Park Service Review Fuels Battle Over Calif. Oyster Farm"
"The National Park Service has released a draft assessment of a California oyster farm's impact on a wilderness area, concluding that the farm's continued operations would harm harbor seals."
Source: Greenwire, 09/27/2011
"Insight: Chasing High Corn Prices, U.S. Farmers Skip Rotations"
"Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois."
Source: Reuters, 09/27/2011
"Partisans Prepare for Keystone XL Hearings"
"Opponents and supporters of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project are gearing up for a pivotal round of public meetings around the country this week — forums that could play a role in whether the huge project receives final approval from the State Department by year’s end."
Source: Green (NYT), 09/27/2011
