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US proposes rule to limit gas ‘flaring’ at drilling sites
Posted by Sun Times: None Given on January 22nd, 2016
Sun Times: The effort is part of President Barack Obama's broader climate change strategy based on executive actions, which includes a goal to reduce oil and gas sector methane emissions by up to 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025. They would require oil and gas producers to limit the amount of gas they vent or burn off - known as flaring - as well as replace aging equipment, periodically inspect their oil and gas sites for leaks, which they are not now required to do.
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UH says TMT will be last project, plans shut down telescopes
Posted by Sun Times: None Given on April 15th, 2015
Sun Times: The University of Hawaii has made some big promises about the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, which is stalled over growing concerns about the project. The university, which manages observatory activity on the mountain, says this will be the last project for the area, KHON 2 News reported. “This is the last new site that will be developed,” Gunther Hasinger, director of the university’s Institute of Astronomy, told the news station. In the years to come,...
Southwest Florida’s valuable salt marshes in danger
Posted by Sun Times: None Given on January 13th, 2015
Sun Times: Say the words “salt marsh,” and some people will think of swarms of mosquitoes, and others will have no idea what you’re talking about.
But these little-known coastal plant communities are very important habitats that are being threatened by rising sea level.
According to a recent study by Jim Beever, principal planner for the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council, area salt marshes are migrating landward ahead of rising sea level where possible — some authorities say that, in a best-case...