RSS Feed
Archive for August 28th, 2013
Pennsylvania officials attempted to supress controversial study that criticized shale gas
Posted by National Public Radio: Marie Cusick on August 28th, 2013
National Public Radio: A state report outlining how climate change will impact Pennsylvania is currently a year and a half late -- and there`s still no indication of when it will be released publicly.
The Department of Environmental Protection missed its legally-mandated deadline to publish the report in the spring of 2012.
Today at a meeting of the DEP`s Climate Change Advisory Committee, the department said the report is still going through the review process.
However StateImpact Pennsylvania has obtained a...
Posted in 
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant to Close in 2014
Posted by Burlington Free Press: Joel Banner Baird and Dan D’Ambrosio on August 28th, 2013
Burlington Free Press: In the end, the price of power and the quirks of the energy market — not a protracted legal battle with the state — is forcing the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to close down.
Plant owner Entergy Corp. announced Tuesday it will shut the 41-year-old Vernon plant at the end of 2014, a move cheered by critics and mourned by employees and supporters.
“This decision was based on economic performance,” Bill Mohl, Entergy’s wholesale commodities president, said at a Brattleboro news conference...
TransCanada Wins Right to Build Keystone XL Through Texas Family Farm
Posted by Bloomberg: Laurel Brubaker Calkins on August 28th, 2013
Bloomberg: TransCanada Corp. won a state appeals court ruling allowing it to lay the Keystone XL pipeline across a family farm in northeastern Texas, eliminating one of the last obstacles to completion of the southern leg of the Canadian tar-sands line. Julia Trigg Crawford claimed TransCanada lacked the right to use state eminent domain laws to cross her 600-acre family farm near the Oklahoma border without her permission. Crawford failed to convince the trial or appellate courts that Texas law grants condemnation...
Get rich in the ‘Age of Megafires’: 2014-20
Posted by MarketWatch: Paul B. Farrell on August 28th, 2013
MarketWatch: New investment strategies, dead ahead. Not just for America’s 95 million investors. But for the climate-change deniers like Big Oil and the Koch brothers. The trigger: “megafires” destroying treasures like our national parks. Time for a “mega-wakeup call.”
Act now, because the climate deniers will soon do a megashift and stop denying. Got that? Denialism will soon stop. End. So get out in front of this historic shift.
Reuters A sign on the edge of Yosemite National Park, in California, is surrounded...