Do 100s of Other Gas Storage Sites Risk Methane Leak Like California's?
"More than 400 facilities holding huge storehouses of natural gas get little regulatory oversight as their infrastructure ages."
Source: InsideClimate News, 01/25/2016
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"Monsanto Sues To Keep Herbicide Off California List Of Carcinogens"
"Monsanto Co stepped up its defense of a widely used weed killer on Thursday by filing a lawsuit in California seeking to prevent glyphosate, the main ingredient in its Roundup herbicide, from being added to the state's list of known carcinogens."
Source: Reuters, 01/25/2016
"VW Diesel Cheating An 'Open Secret' In Engine Group: Report"
"A German newspaper has reported that the use of "defeat device" software to cheat on U.S. emissions laws was widespread knowledge within the diesel-engine group at Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany."
Source: Green Car Reports, 01/25/2016
"Regulators Approve Health Study On Huge California Gas Leak"
"Regional air quality regulators in California voted on Saturday to require the utility responsible for a ruptured underground pipeline in the Los Angeles area to underwrite an independent study on the health effects of a huge methane leak from the site."
Source: Reuters, 01/25/2016
"When the Water Turned Brown"
"FLINT, Mich. — Standing at a microphone in September holding up a baby bottle, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a local pediatrician, said she was deeply worried about the water. The number of Flint children with elevated levels of lead in their blood had risen alarmingly since the city changed its water supply the previous year, her analysis showed."
Source: NY Times, 01/25/2016
"The Coal Miner 'On Everybody's List' as Next Bankruptcy Victim"
"Plummeting coal prices have pushed almost half the debt issued by U.S. coal companies into default, and for miners and their investors there’s no end in sight."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/25/2016
"U.S. Moves to Limit Emissions of Planet-Warming Methane"
"The Obama administration on Friday proposed a new rule aimed at curbing emissions of planet-warming methane from oil and gas drilling on public land. It would force companies to use equipment to capture leaked gas and raise the costs they pay for extracting fuel on government property."
Source: NY Times, 01/25/2016
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Global Fisheries Declining Faster Than We Thought: What Can Be Done?
"The United Nations has been grossly underestimating global fish takes, according to a comprehensive study. But marine biologist see a silver lining in the news."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 01/22/2016
