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Three Fracking Moratorium Bills Win Key Vote in California Legislature
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on May 1st, 2013
EcoWatch: Three bills that would halt fracking in California won key votes Monday night, passing the Assembly Natural Resources Committee despite intense pressure from the oil industry. Richard Bloom’s A.B. 1301, Holly Mitchell’s A.B. 1323 and Adrin Nazarian’s A.B. 649 would place a moratorium on fracking while threats posed by the controversial practice to California’s environment and public health are studied.
Concerned residents rally outside a California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources...
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Comments Off on Three Fracking Moratorium Bills Win Key Vote in California LegislatureFacebook Bans Ad Criticizing Mark Zuckerberg’s Pro-Keystone XL Stance
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on May 1st, 2013
EcoWatch: Here’s a question for you. What have one of the world’s richest companies and one of the world’s richest men have in common?
The answer: They have both censored adverting criticizing their actions on climate-related issues.
So Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg joins Exxon in those accused of cynical censorship of free speech.
As we have pointed out, Exxon has repeatedly tried to ban adverting by Oil Change International and others.
But yesterday it emerged that Facebook has rejected an advertisement...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Facebook Bans Ad Criticizing Mark Zuckerberg’s Pro-Keystone XL StanceSequester Hits Nation’s Climate Change Research Capability
Posted by InsideClimate: Rachel Nuwer on May 1st, 2013
InsideClimate: When Renee McPherson took on the role of director of research at the South Central Climate Science Center last year, she had no idea that she’d soon be grappling with budget cuts that threatened her ability to support regional climate research or hire new graduate students and faculty--the premise of hosting the center in the first place.
The facility McPherson runs out of the University of Oklahoma is among eight centers created between 2010 and 2012 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)....
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Sequester Hits Nation’s Climate Change Research CapabilityDry winter, warming trend foretell US wildfire danger
Posted by Contra Costa Times: John Miller on May 1st, 2013
Contra Costa Times: Two small but unseasonably early fires burning in northern California's wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire season across the West.
Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Wednesday in their first 2013 summer fire outlook that a dry winter and expected warming trend mean the potential for significant fire activity will be above normal on the West Coast, in the Southwest and portions of Idaho and Montana....