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Another Setback for a West Coast Coal Port
Posted by NYT: Felicity Barringer on December 30th, 2010
NYT: A worker unloading coal at a storage site by a railway station in Shenyang, China.
When my colleague Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote last month about the growth of coal exports to China from all over the world, she noted that the Port of Tacoma in Washington had nixed proposals for a new coal export terminal in the area.
Now the state government has blocked a proposed export terminal in the southwestern corner of Washington, which could have provided another outlet for coal companies like Peabody...
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Global Study on Warming Lakes
Posted by NYT: Felicity Barringer on December 1st, 2010
NYT: The Great Salt Lake in Utah was one of 104 inland water bodies worldwide whose temperature was tracked in a new study. It is warming at a rate of 1.21 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.
The world`s largest lakes are warming along with the air -- and sometimes at faster rates -- but the intensity of the warming trend differs strikingly around the globe, a new study by two scientists from NASA`s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says.
The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, shows...
Water Deals Heighten Concern for Farms
Posted by NYT: Felicity Barringer on November 12th, 2010
NYT: The Scissor Ridge region of the Tejon Ranch in Southern California, which environmentalists fought successfully to have preserved. Elsewhere on the ranch, developers are to build a planned community of 23,000 homes, raising the perennial issue of adequate water supplies.
Two farmers in California`s San Joaquin Valley are proposing to do with their water what farmers around the country have done for decades: sell it to developers.
The farmers pay a maximum of $500 per acre-foot of water from...