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New Hampshire Town Shows Support Potential Tar Sands Pipeline
Posted by Vermont Public Radio: Charlotte Albright on March 14th, 2014
Vermont Public Radio: At several town meetings held this past week in New Hampshire, voters weighed in on non-binding resolutions opposing the flow of tar sands oil through their communities.
But the town of Lancaster, on the Vermont border, sent a resounding message of support for a pipeline company some worry will carry tar sands oil from Canada to Maine.
The two companies that own the pipelines that now carry crude oil west from Portland to Quebec insist they have no immediate plans to reverse that flow and change...
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Senate Committee Debates Whether Keystone XL Is in the U.S. National Interest
Posted by Huffington Post: Kate Sheppard on March 14th, 2014
Huffington Post: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing Thursday to consider whether approval of Keystone XL, the proposed 1,660-mile pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to Texas, is in the national interest of the United States.
The State Department released its final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on Keystone in January, moving the decision on the pipeline into the hands of Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama. The administration is expected to make a national-interest determination...
Two Months After W. Va.’s Chemical Spill, Residents Still Concerned About Water Safety
Posted by Rolling Stone: Heather Rogers on March 14th, 2014
Rolling Stone: Sharon Satterfield, a grandmother of six in Charleston, West Virginia, doesn't touch the water. "It's still not all right," she says, standing in her son's modest ranch-style house, almost two months after a toxic chemical spill shut down the drinking water supply of 300,000 residents in and around the state capitol -- one of the largest incidents of drinking water contamination in U.S. history. At the time, state authorities banned the use of tap water for everything except flushing toilets and...
Poll: Global warming no big threat USA life
Posted by USA Today: Michael Winter on March 14th, 2014
USA Today: Though two-thirds of Americans believe global warming is happening or will happen during their lifetimes, only about one-third see it as a serious threat to their way of life, a new Gallup Poll reports.
The wide perceptual gap has existed since Gallup first asked the question 17 years ago, but it has narrowed slightly. Today, 36% believe that global warming will seriously affect how they live, up from 25% in 1997.
At the same time, the percentage of people who do not see global warming hampering...
Court Upholds Guidelines to Protect Fish
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 14th, 2014
Reuters: An appeals court on Thursday sided with environmentalists over growers and upheld federal guidelines that limit water diversions in order to protect delta smelt. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a lower court should not have overturned recommendations that the state reduce exports of water to the south from the north. The reduced exports leave more water in the Sacramento Delta for the finger-size delta smelt and have been blamed for exacerbating the effects of...