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To defeat Keystone, environmental movement goes from beltway to grassroots
Posted by InsideClimate: Katherine Bagley on May 24th, 2013
InsideClimate: As decision day nears on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the environmental movement looks different than it did in 2009—the last time a major climate policy fight took center stage in Washington.
Then, the nation's largest green groups were the main engine behind a movement to pass federal climate change legislation. They spent vast quantities of financial and political capital lobbying congressional negotiators and corporations, before the bill failed in 2010.
This time, the main force of opposition...
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Comments Off on To defeat Keystone, environmental movement goes from beltway to grassrootsArk. Oil Spill Probe Falls to Understaffed Agency With Close Industry Ties
Posted by InsideClimate: Katherine Bagley on April 22nd, 2013
InsideClimate: Just a day after roughly one million gallons of heavy Canadian crude [3] oil spilled into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it was launching a formal investigation into the incident. It quickly set up shop in a local hotel and conducted dozens of interviews with pipeline workers, local officials and residents. It did field and laboratory analysis of the ruptured pipeline in its own labs. And its investigators pored over the responsible company’s...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Ark. Oil Spill Probe Falls to Understaffed Agency With Close Industry TiesWith Drought Season Off to a Bad Start, Scientists Forecast Another Bleak Year
Posted by InsideClimate: Katherine Bagley on March 28th, 2013
InsideClimate: Drought conditions in more than half of the United States have slipped into a pattern that climatologists say is uncomfortably similar to the most severe droughts in recent U.S. history, including the 1930s Dust Bowl and the widespread 1950s drought.
The 2013 drought season is already off to a worse start than in 2012 or 2011—a trend that scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say is a good indicator, based on historical records, that the entire year will be drier...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on With Drought Season Off to a Bad Start, Scientists Forecast Another Bleak YearClimate change impacts absent from redrawn flood maps
Posted by InsideClimate: Katherine Bagley on February 7th, 2013
InsideClimate: When the federal government released updated flood maps for the New York City region last week, residents were shocked to find that the number of houses and businesses in the region's flood zone had doubled since the maps were last revised, in 1986. But it now appears that those maps might have underestimated the extent of New York's flood risk, because they don't factor in the effects of future climate change. Scientists say that by the 2080s, sea levels off the city's coast could rise by as much...