"Top Ten Environmental Stories in 2015"
"Another year, another continuing flow of environment stories."
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 12/31/2015
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"The Most Intriguing Environmental Stories of 2015"
"A terrible earthquake, massive drought and nuclear power captured the imagination this year".
Source: Scientific American, 12/31/2015
"Posh New York City Hotels Pledge To Go Green"
"Some of New York's most iconic hotels, comprising more than 11,000 guest rooms, promised to cut their carbon footprints on Tuesday and join a city effort to improve the energy efficiency of buildings."
Source: Reuters, 12/30/2015
"China to Halt New Coal Mine Approvals Amid Pollution Fight"
"China will stop approving new coal mines for the next three years and continue to trim production capacity as the world’s biggest energy consumer tries to shift away from the fuel as it grapples with pollution."
Source: Bloomberg, 12/30/2015
As China Hungers for Coal, ‘Behemoth’ Studies the Ravages at the Source
"BEIJING — The artist and filmmaker Zhao Liang has shed light on some of the darkest corners of Chinese society, filming in locations as obscure as a shantytown here known as the 'petitioners’ village' and a military police office on the North Korean border."
Source: NY Times, 12/30/2015
"Polish Government Chokes on Coal"
"Warsaw tries to figure out how to save jobs as coal spirals towards bankruptcy."
Source: Politico, 12/30/2015
"Shale's Running Out of Survival Tricks as OPEC Ramps Up Pressure"
"In 2015, the fracking outfits that dot America’s oil-rich plains threw everything they had at $50-a-barrel crude. To cope with the 50 percent price plunge, they laid off thousands of roughnecks, focused their rigs on the biggest gushers only and used cutting-edge technology to squeeze all the oil they could out of every well."
Source: Bloomberg, 12/29/2015
"DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative"
"The Department of Energy is formally launching its initiative aimed at establishing a disposal site for spent nuclear fuel."
Source: The Hill, 12/24/2015
Groups Ask Columbia To Reveal Funding of Exxon-Tied Energy Policy Center
"Final exams and winter break loom large for students at Columbia University, but at the upper echelons of the university's administration, new calls for transparency about the funding of a university affiliated center are likely to create plenty of homework as well."
Source: DeSmog, 12/24/2015
"Study: Rising Lake Temperatures May Worsen Algae Blooms"
"Some of the world’s biggest temperature jumps are happening in lakes — suggesting that problems such as algae blooms and low-oxygen zones hazardous to fish will get worse, a new report says."
Source: Wash Post, 12/23/2015
