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U.S. Announces Moratorium On New Coal Leases On Federal Lands
Posted by Bonham Journal: None Given on January 16th, 2016
Bonham Journal: While environmentalists cheered, state government and central Utah county leaders expressed dismay about the Obama administration's decision to halt new coal leases on federal lands. There's enough coal in reserve under existing leases to continue production at its current rate for another 20 years, she said.
"The coal industry is shrinking, and it will continue to shrink for the foreseeable future".
"It is abundantly clear that times are different than they were 30 years ago, and the time...
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TransCanada launches lawsuit, NAFTA challenge against Keystone rejection
Posted by Bonham Journal: None Given on January 9th, 2016
Bonham Journal: TransCanada filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in Houston alleging President Barack Obama's decision in November to kill the pipeline exceeded his power under the U.S. Constitution.
They say the case announced Wednesday, in which TransCanada Corp.is seeking arbitration to recover $15 billion tied to the Obama administration's rejection of Keystone, shows how companies could use provisions of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement to challenge government decision making.
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Overwhelming evidence of human-driven Anthropocene
Posted by Bonham Journal: None Given on January 8th, 2016
Bonham Journal: Additionally, human farming and fishing have brought about "transglobal species invasions...permanently reconfiguring Earth's biological trajectory".
Study's lead researcher Colin Waters from the British Geological Survey said that the paper unveils about the big changes and as massive as the ones happened at the end of the last ice age.
That is why, the Anthropocene Working Group believe that we have moved on into a new era, the Anthropocene Epoch. One of the factors considered is climate...
Parts of United Kingdom facing ‘very severe weather’
Posted by Bonham Journal: None Given on December 26th, 2015
Bonham Journal: Flood warnings have been issued in parts of Northern England and Scotland after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow Saturday morning.
The UK Met Office's most serious weather warning was issued for Lancashire on Saturday with a risk of "widespread river flooding".
The Environment Agency has issued hundreds of flood warnings.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency issued five flood alerts and 16 flood warnings.
About 115 flood alerts and 100 warnings were also issued by authorities....