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Review Of West Virginia Water Finds More Work To Be Done
Posted by National Public Radio: Dave Mistich on March 29th, 2014
National Public Radio: This week, an independent team testing water quality at homes in West Virginia released some results, and met with residents. They found that small amounts of coal-cleaning chemical are still present in residents' water.
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Officials not keeping track of oil trains
Posted by CIN: James Pilcher on March 29th, 2014
CIN: Domestic oil production, including that in Ohio, keeps growing. And with oil being produced in new areas that don’t have pipelines, more crude is heading to refineries in rail cars. Yet neither federal nor state regulators track the shipments that are increasingly crisscrossing the country – potentially cutting through neighborhoods and business districts nationwide and in Greater Cincinnati.
Much of the oil apparently is more volatile than traditional crude, with some experts saying it is as...
Public Recruited to Research Australia’s Record Heat
Posted by Guardian: Oliver Milman on March 29th, 2014
Guardian: An international team of climate scientists is looking to recruit 10,000 members of the public to help find out the exact role greenhouse gases played in Australia's record temperatures last year.
The Weather@home ANZ project will use people's home computers to run a series of simulations based on the weather experienced in 2013, which has been confirmed as Australia's hottest year on record.
The summer of 2013 was Australia's hottest. Now scientists are enlisting citizens' extra computing...
The rich West is ruining our planet
Posted by Telegraph: Rowan Williams on March 29th, 2014
Telegraph: The storms that have battered parts of the UK this year and left hundreds of people facing the misery of flooded homes and ruined land have again brought questions about the impact of climate change to the forefront of the public consciousness. And this week the whole question has been put into still sharper focus, as the world's leading climate scientists publish a report on the subject putting our local problems into a deeply disturbing global context.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
What the Frack: The Latest Earthquake Swarms in Los Angeles
Posted by Examiner: None Given on March 29th, 2014
Examiner: Alone in the house last night at around 9pm, with 3 cats and deep into working on the computer, that queasy odd sudden dizzy feeling that often hits before an earthquake rattled my nerves seconds before the sound of rattling cabinets and sloshing water from the attic fire sprinkler system had me heading for the nearest door jam.
Largest in a series of latest Southern California earthquake swarms, last night’s 5.1 magnitude tremblor was centered between the cities of La Habra and Brea in Orange...
Washington mudslide: 90 missing & 27 presumed dead as search continues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2014
Reuters: Families and friends of the 90 people still missing in the Washington state mudslide are bracing for a rise in the official death toll, as searchers ready for another day of slogging through mud-caked debris and the governor called for a statewide moment of silence.
"The number is so big and it's so negative. It's hard to grasp," said 66-year-old Bob Michajla, a volunteer who has been helping search part of the square-mile debris field. "These are all friends and neighbors and family. Everybody...
White House unveils plans to cut methane emissions
Posted by New York Times: Coral Davenport on March 29th, 2014
New York Times: The Obama administration on Friday announced a strategy to start slashing emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas released by landfills, cattle, and leaks from oil and natural gas production.
The methane strategy is the latest step in a series of White House actions aimed at addressing climate change without legislation from Congress. Individually, most of the steps will not be enough to drastically reduce the United States' contribution to global warming. But the Obama administration...
White House presses forward on ‘methane strategy.’
Posted by US News and World Report: None Given on March 29th, 2014
US News and World Report: The Obama administration has redoubled its campaign to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
At a conference on Capitol Hill on Friday morning, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy talked up a new set of national carbon standards that she plans to formally unveil in June. Speaking at a gathering of the American Council on Renewable Energy, she reiterated earlier pledges that the rules -- which would mostly apply to existing coal-fired power plants -- would provide...
Climate change influences landowner’s tree choices
Posted by Associated Perss: Ann Wessel on March 29th, 2014
Associated Perss: Cardinals tuck into the dark wall of Norway spruce, finding shelter in the tall trees. Prickly, round seed balls dangle from a slender sycamore like tiny Christmas ornaments. A dawn redwood, native to China and found in fossil records dating back about 150 million years, drops flat rust-colored needles on the deep March snow. When Steve and Jeanne Dirksen moved onto 40 acres outside Clearwater in the early 1970s, the yard was a cornfield and the 20-acre woods held a lot of oaks. "There were two...
Is Nicaraguan Canal a Boon for Trade or a Boondoggle?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2014
National Geographic: For nearly a century the Panama Canal has been the only game in town for anyone who wanted to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific without making the long voyage around Cape Horn. In that time more than a million ships, from bulk carriers to cruise liners to nuclear submarines, have passed through its locks, taking advantage of the world's most famous shortcut. Panama's canal may (or may not) soon face stiff competition. Last June Nicaragua's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved a plan to...