"Climate To Be 2014 Battlefield"
"Climate change and energy will be a major policy battleground in the 2014 midterms, advocates on both sides of the issue promise."
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 01/03/2014
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"Crude-Oil Impurities Are Probed in Rail Blasts"
"After three fiery accidents involving trains carrying crude oil out of North Dakota's Bakken Shale, regulators and industry officials are trying to figure out why the oil is exploding."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 01/03/2014
Maryland: "Pipeline May Affect Drinking Water, Activists Fear"
"Environmental activists warn that construction of a 21-mile natural gas pipeline through northern Baltimore and Harford counties could affect the region's drinking-water system, as the $180 million project cuts across more than three dozen streams feeding into Loch Raven Reservoir."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 01/02/2014
Brazil Ethanol, Once Thriving, Buffeted By Forces Man-Made, Natural
"ITUMBIARA, Brazil — This should be a golden era here on Brazil’s farming frontier, where some of the world’s biggest corporations have invested billions of dollars in land, equipment and mills to turn sugar cane into ethanol."
Source: Wash Post, 01/02/2014
"The End Of The Bulb As We Know It? Not Quite"
"January 1 is the end of the era of your standard, soft white Edison-designed incandescent bulb in the United States. Or at least, in theory."
Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting, 01/02/2014
Researchers Find 7,300-Sq-Mile Ring of Mercury Around Canada Tar Sands
"Scientists have found a more than 7,300-square-mile ring of land and water contaminated by mercury surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, where energy companies are producing oil and shipping it throughout Canada and the U.S."
Source: Aljazeera, 12/31/2013
"Vestas 400% Gain Can’t Suppress Buy Ratings at 3-Year High"
"More analysts are urging investors to buy shares in Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) than at any time since October 2010 after the stock soared more than 400 percent over the past 12 months."
Source: Bloomberg, 12/31/2013
"VIDEO: Casselton, N.D., Train Crash Prompts Call for Evacuation"
"CASSELTON, N.D. – Officials urged people in Casselton and the surrounding area to evacuate their homes as they dealt with the fallout from a massive fire when two trains collided Monday."
Source: Grand Forks Herald, 12/31/2013
"Is LNG Fracking Worth Its Weight in Water?"
"VICTORIA, B.C. -- More than seven billion litres of water were used for fracking in B.C. last year. If the government’s liquefied natural gas sector takes off, the water needed to get shale gas out of the ground in the northeast corner of the province will likely increase by 500 per cent, or more."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 12/30/2013
"New Energy Struggles on Its Way to Markets"
"WASHINGTON — To stave off climate change, sources of electricity that do not emit carbon will have to replace the ones that do. But at the moment, two of those largest sources, nuclear and wind power, are trying to kill each other off."
Source: NY Times, 12/30/2013
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