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Element of BP claims process to be reviewed
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2010
AP: The administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill said Monday he might waive the current requirement that wages earned from helping out in the cleanup be subtracted from people's spill claims. Doing so would be a key concession following strong criticism from residents about the claims process. Fund czar Kenneth Feinberg told hundreds of people who packed a convention center in Houma, La., that he is reconsidering that requirement. He said ...
GE asks EPA to let it continue dredge tests in ’11
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2010
Associated Press: General Electric told federal environmental officials Monday that it should be allowed to finish the test phase of Hudson River dredging next year to collect more data, instead of starting the far larger, second phase of the massive Superfund cleanup. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said it wanted to start the second phase of the PCB cleanup next year. In a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, GE argued that an independent review panel's findings show that it ...
Australia: Climate change could affect sustainable logging rate
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2010
ABC: A number of conservation groups are calling for an immediate end to the logging of forests in areas with low and intermediate rainfall. This follows the Environmental Protection Authority releasing a report which says declining rainfall from climate change could make logging in some south west forests unsustainable. The WA Forest Alliance's Jess Beckerling says the report confirms the fears that climate change, declining rainfall and a history of unsustainable logging had ...
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Comments Off on Australia: Climate change could affect sustainable logging rateRussia: Not a food crisis
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2010
NYT: Russia's misguided decision to ban exports of wheat for the next 12 months has sent a destabilizing shock through agricultural markets, pushing prices of grains to their highest levels since 2007 and 2008, when food shortages sparked rioting around the world. The situation in poor grain-importing countries in Africa is tense. In Mozambique, the government backtracked on its decision to raise bread prices by 30 percent after riots in which more than a dozen people died. Still, the world need ...
Summit Failure on Water, Sanitation Would Be Recipe for Disaster
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2010
IPS: A weeklong international conference here has transmitted a strong political message to next week's U.N. summit meeting of world leaders: what good is the fight against poverty, hunger, maternal mortality and child deaths if water and sanitation are not given the high priority they deserve? When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the European Forum last week that the number of hungry people worldwide has risen above a billion "for the first time ever", he also unwittingly turned the ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Summit Failure on Water, Sanitation Would Be Recipe for DisasterGulf oil spill energizes foes of NY shale drilling
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2010
Reuters: Critics of natural gas drilling in New York on Monday urged U.S. regulators to enact tougher regulations, saying the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico proves the industry cannot be trusted. More than 1,600 officials and citizens were due to testify over two days at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stakeholder meeting in Binghamton, in upstate New York. Critics and supporters of drilling turned out to voice their opinions as part of the EPA's two-year study on possible ...
Enbridge shuts 3rd U.S. pipeline, outages near 1 mln bpd
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2010
Reuters: A small oil spill on Monday forced Enbridge Inc. to close an oil pipeline in New York State, just four days after another leak in Illinois forced it to shut a massive Canadian crude export pipeline. The Calgary-based pipeline giant said it shut the 70,000 barrel per day (bpd) Line 10, a 91-mile pipe from Westover, Ontario, Canada into New York State. The latest shutdown, at Line 10, came after an oil spill near Buffalo, New York. The leak appeared tiny and was likely measurable ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Enbridge shuts 3rd U.S. pipeline, outages near 1 mln bpdDevelopment of Carbon Markets in Agriculture and Forestry Have Potential to Address Climate Change, Save Landowners Mone
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
PR Web: Development of Carbon Markets in Agriculture and Forestry Have Potential to Address Climate Change, Save Landowners Money Carbon sequestration through agriculture could potentially take the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of cars off the road and provide farmers with a new revenue stream worth billions of dollars. What is exciting is that while farmers and forest owners are increasing their carbon storage, or reducing their production of greenhouse gasses, they can also be ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Development of Carbon Markets in Agriculture and Forestry Have Potential to Address Climate Change, Save Landowners MoneStrengthening rural communities and improving conservation: an interview with David Kaimowitz
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
Worldwatch Institute: In July, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year, US$85 million initiative to address climate change through the inclusion and empowerment of rural and indigenous people. David Kaimowitz, the foundation's director of sustainable development, talks with Research Fellow Molly Theobald about the new initiative and what he hopes it will accomplish. In developing the new initiative, the Ford Foundation referenced a Rights and Resources Initiative study on community rights to forest land ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Strengthening rural communities and improving conservation: an interview with David KaimowitzIndia: Billionaire saves marine reserve plans
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
Press Association: A Swiss billionaire has stepped in to save plans to create the world's largest marine reserve from public spending cuts, it emerged today. Ministers are in talks over a £3.5 million deal for America's Cup-winning yachtsman Ernesto Bertarelli to fund the policing of the zone around the British-owned Chagos Islands. The Marine Protected Area (MPA) will cover some quarter of a million square miles of sea around the archipelago in the Indian Ocean and include a "no-take" reserve ...