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United States: Climate change may drastically alter region
Posted by Santa Cruz Sentinel: Paul Gabrielsen on January 3rd, 2013
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Lake Tahoe is "the fairest picture the whole earth affords," Mark Twain once wrote. Its crystal blue waters, surrounded by stunning snowy mountains, define one of California's crown jewels as an American landmark. It attracts 3 million skiers, boaters, campers, hikers and other visitors each year.
But it could look very different in 100 years.
Climate change could profoundly affect the Tahoe area, scientists say, taking the snow out of the mountains and the blue out of the water.
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Exxon Yellowstone oil spill made worse by delay-report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 3rd, 2013
Reuters: An Exxon Mobil pipeline spill into the Yellowstone River in 2011 would have been far less severe if the company had not delayed closing valves, a report issued on Wednesday by federal pipeline regulators said. Exxon's Silvertip pipeline, which carries 40,000 barrels per day of crude in Montana, leaked about 1,500 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River in July 2011 after the region suffered heavy flooding. Had Exxon Mobil Pipeline Company's shutdown procedures required remote controlled valves...
Meet Anthony Ingraffea—From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent
Posted by EcoWatch: Ellen Cantarow on January 3rd, 2013
EcoWatch: Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its singularity--its vastness, its difference from other industries and its threat to the planet?
When I interviewed Dr. Anthony Ingraffea--Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University and president of Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc., I realized that his comments were perhaps the clearest, most compactly...