Earmark Database Now Covers Fiscal 2011
The downloadable, Zipped Excel spreadsheet, produced by Taxpayers for Common Sense, WashingtonWatch.com, and Taxpayers Against Earmarks, contains 39,294 requested earmarks, worth $130 billion.
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Power Plant Cooling May Hurt NE Stocks More Than Overfishing
"In an unprecedented move, the environmental agencies of New Jersey and New York have begun forcing scores of their largest water users to either retrofit their plants with modern cooling systems which won't kill billions of fish annually or cease operating."
Source: New Jersey Newsroom, 12/15/2010
"Oil Sands Report Criticizes All Stakeholders"
"Cutting through rhetoric that so often dominates debate over Canada's oil sands, a new report by a prominent academic group is a comprehensive snapshot of the failings and successes of all the industry's stakeholders and raises hope for a new era of oversight."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 12/15/2010
"Sierra Club Sues Exxon Over Baytown Plant Pollution"
"The Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed a federal lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp for five years of excess pollution at the nation's largest refinery, the Sierra Club said on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 12/15/2010
U.S. Expected To Join Gulf Spill Lawsuits
"The Justice Department on Wednesday is expected to seek to join civil lawsuits stemming from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the first major federal legal action in the disaster, according to people familiar with the matter."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 12/15/2010
"Permit Hearing Puts Focus on EPA Mining Crackdown"
"Environmentalists and state regulators faced off Tuesday in the start of a major permit appeal hearing that puts the spotlight squarely on West Virginia's opposition to a federal crackdown aimed at reducing strip-mine pollution across the Appalachian coalfields."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 12/15/2010
"Livestock in U.S. Gobble up the Antibiotics"
"The U.S.-raised animals we eat consumed about 29 million pounds of antibiotics in the last year alone, according to a first-ever Food and Drug Administration accounting of antimicrobial drug use by the American livestock industry."
Source: LA Times, 12/15/2010
"US Southwest Could See 60-Year Drought: Study"
"A worst-case scenario devised by US researchers shows that the American southwest could experience a 60-year stretch of heat and drought unseen since the 12th century."
Source: AFP, 12/15/2010
"Musk Oxen Live to Tell a Survivors’ Tale"
The musk ox, an Arctic species that is a holdover from the Pleistocene, survived terrible climate changes when mastodons and sabertooths went extinct. That may be as much a result of its social structure as its shaggy coat.
Source: NYTimes, 12/15/2010
"Aging Oil Rigs, Pipelines Expose Gulf to Accidents"
The aging oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico -- pipelines, wells, platforms, and other rigs -- could well prove another disaster waiting to happen.
Source: Wall St. Journal, 12/15/2010
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