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Louisiana’s graveyard to bird watching
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: Row upon row of white crosses mark everything destroyed by the oil spill spreading across the Gulf Coast: birdwatching, marsh grasses, the beach, oysters, blackened redfish, shrimp scampi, dolphins and "our soul." Patrick Shay was building a larger cross -- this one made of crab traps -- behind them in the yard of his beachfront home in Grand Isle, Louisiana. "I had to do something with my crab traps -- can't crab no more," Shay said as he climbed a ladder to tie a trap to a ...
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Government launches full waste policy review
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2010
Business Green: The government has today unveiled plans for a wholesale review of waste policy in England designed to accelerate improvements in recycling rates and maximize the economic benefits associated with waste management. The review, the terms of which will be confirmed within the next few weeks, was announced by Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman at the Futuresource waste and sustainability conference in London's Docklands. "There is an economic and environmental urgency to ...
String of floods raise climate change questions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2010
Washington Post: Call it the spring of flash floods. Rare and deadly flash flooding events have struck several parts of the south-central U.S. from Tennessee to Oklahoma this spring, with two remarkable events occurring in just the past five days: the astounding six-to-ten-inch gully washer that resulted in numerous swift-water rescues in Oklahoma City yesterday morning, and the tragic deluge in rural Arkansas late last week. Cars are stranded and submerged by flood water in Oklahoma City after heavy ...
Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2010
Associated Press: Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day. A government panel of scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons daily of oil. The figures move the government's worst-case estimates more in line with what an independent team had previously thought was the maximum size of the ...
Obama’s Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2010
Associated Press: Text of President Barack Obama's Oval Office address Tuesday on the Gulf oil spill, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions: Good evening. As we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. At home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American. Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al-Qaida wherever it exists. And tonight, I've returned from a trip to the Gulf Coast to speak with ...
United Kingdom: Caroline Spelman calls for ‘zero-waste’ society to end landfill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2010
Press Association: Throwing rubbish such as drinks cans and leftover food into landfill wastes money and should not continue, the environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, said today. Announcing a new government review of England's waste strategy, Spelman said putting recyclable and biodegradable rubbish in the ground threatened the environment and wasted valuable natural resources. She said there was a need to go further and faster in boosting recycling rates in England, and that driving forward ...
United Kingdom: Pay hill farmers to protect water supply and carbon sinks, report urges
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2010
Guardian: The government faces a new call on its diminished resources today with a recommendation from rural experts that hill farmers should be subsidised to safeguard water catchments and protect huge carbon-storing wildernesses of peat. But the Commission for Rural Communities has softened its request by suggesting that Whitehall target European funding for much of the proposed scheme, taking advantage of pending reforms in the EU's common agricultural policy. The lengthy inquiry into ...