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National and International News
Gulf oil well is dead but the pain will remain (By Harry R. Weber, The Associated Press as reported by Yahoo News, 9/20/20) Cleaner for the Environment, Not for the Dishes (Mireya Navarro, The New York Times, 9/18/10) Climate change falling off public radar, speakers say (By Shaun Polczer, Calgary Herald, 9/18/10) Drilling can dig into land value (By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, Denton Record-Chronicle, 9/18/10) U.S. DOE provides US $20MM for Seven R&D Projects (By Think GeoEnergy, 9/16/10) California Braces for Showdown on Emissions (By Adam Nagourney, The New York Times, 9/16/10) Whistleblower Group Sues To Find Out Why Administration Lowballed BP Oil Spill Estimates (By Dan Froomkin, The Huffington Post Blog, 9/16/10) Media Advisory: Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent for 2010 (Press release, National Snow and Ice Data Center, 9/15/10) World Bank invests record sums in coal: Last year, $3.4bn was invested in the dirtiest fossil fuel despite international commitments to cut emissions (Juliette Jowit, The [UK] Guardian, 9/15/10) Documents show Homeland Security tracks anti-drill groups in Pennsylvania (Donald Gilliland, The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News, 9/15/10) Utah Approves First Tar Sands Mine in US (By Juliana Williams, It's Getting Hot In Here: Dispatches From the Youth Climate Movement, 9/14/10) Arctic Warms, Sea Ice Shrinks, Extinction Risk Grows (Environment News Service, 9/14/10) Clean Air Act at 40 - breathing easier, but battles loom (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 9/14/10) Reid Promises Vote On Blocking EPA From Addressing Climate Change (By Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post, 9/14/10) U.S. Chamber, energy trade groups urge spending panels to block EPA climate rules (By Ben Geman, The Hill - Energy and Environment Blog, 9/14/10) Utah Oil Sands: Canada's Infamous Tar Sands Extraction Coming To U.S. (By Travis Walter Donovan, The Huffington Post Blog, 9/14/10) Scientists Discover Thick Layer of Oil Stretching for Miles on Gulf Sea Floor (By Marian Wang, Pro Publica Blog, 9/13/10) County cites farmer for too many vegetables (By Alexis Stevens, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 9/13/10) |