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Interior Department: Shell 'Screwed Up' in the Arctic: As Interior Department gives 'slap on the wrist' to Big Oil, green groups assert that it will never be safe to drill in those waters (By Lauren McCauley, CommonDreams.org, 3/15/13) Superheated American City Dealing with 110 Degrees for 33 Days -- Phoenix Confronts Apocalyptic Climate Change: Horrific heat, droughts, windstorms, water shortages and forest fires will plague nation's 13th largest city. (By William de Buys, Tom Dispatch as reported by Alternet.org, 3/14/13) Herbicides for GMOs Driving Monarch Butterfly Populations to 'Ominous' Brink - Scientist: "If we pull the monarchs out of the system, we're really pulling the rug out from under a whole lot of other species" (Lauren McCauley, CommonDreams.org, 3/14/13) Penguins In Antarctica At Serious Risk As Ice Melt Continues (VIDEO) (By Dominique Mosbergen, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 3/13/13) The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11,000 Years (By Phil Plait, Slate.com, 3/13/13) Climate Movement Claims 'Victory' After Direct Action Suit Dropped by Energy Giant: 'Only a few of us went up that chimney but 64,000 people came down.' (By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 3/13/13) Storms Will Be Stronger In A Warming World (By Adam Voiland, NASA Earth Observatory as reported by ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 3/13/13) Keystone Pipeline Jobs Numbers Are Probably Exaggerated, Obama Allegedly Told Republicans (By Matthew Daly, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 3/13/13) Despite Efforts to Suppress, Cleaner Energy Continues Inevitable Rise: Though the fossil fuel industry maintains iron grip, attractiveness of common sense renewables trumps all (By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 3/13/13) 3 Reasons Why We Should Stop New Gas Drilling Before it Starts: Too many people -- especially politicians -- aren't paying attention to the dangers of the current "boom" in natural gas development. (By Michael Brune, GlobalPossibilities.org in partnership with Alternet.org - Environment Blog, 3/13/13) Michigan Air Pollution Lawsuit Filed By Sierra Club Alleges DTE Energy Violated Clean Air Act (By David Sands, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 3/12/13) Forests growing in thawed-out Arctic (By John Upton, Grist.org, 3/11/13) Top Military Officer: Climate Change Biggest Threat to Security - Admiral Samuel Locklear told the Boston Globe that global warming could 'cripple the security environment.' (By Alex Kane, Alternet.org - News and Politics, 3/11/13) HOT WATER: ‘Erin Brockovich of Uranium' Exposes the Toxic Legacy of Nuclear Power (Published by Zero Hot Documentary as reported by CommonDreams.org, 3/11/13) N.Y. Times and Thomas Friedman call for killing Keystone (By Lisa Hymas, Grist.org, 3/11/13) A Dry Spring: Drought Expands In Texas And Florida, Pounding State Economies (By Jeff Spross, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 3/11/13) |