"Get Ready for $2 Gasoline Again"
"U.S. gasoline pump prices are poised to drop below $2 a gallon for the first time in more than six years, which is sure to bring comfort and joy to drivers."
Source: Bloomberg, 12/09/2015
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"Ethiopia Drought 'Leaves 10 Million Without Food'"
"Ethiopia's government has increased to 10.1 million the estimated number of people who desperately need food aid because of a drought."
Source: BBC News, 12/09/2015
Environmental, Energy Riders Key in Capitol Hill's Budget Endgame
Environmental policy riders are one of the bones of contention stalling a massive omnibus funding deal in Congress as the December 11 government shutdown deadline looms.
"WASHINGTON — The bazaar is open on Capitol Hill as lawmakers rush through unfinished budget business.
Congress is trying to wrap up its work for the year and it's hoping to go out with a bang by passing a massive spending bill and a separate measure reviving a boatload of tax breaks that mostly reward business interests like high-tech firms and producers of renewable energy.
Source: AP, 12/09/2015
"In Evangelical Country, an Apocalypse of Rising Seas"
"In Hampton Roads, Va., the epicenter of both the evangelical movement and climate change, land and ideology are losing the battle to a rising Atlantic."
Source: InsideClimate News/Scalawag, 12/08/2015
Acid Trip: Great Lakes Could Face Similar Acidification Risk as the Sea
"As in the oceans, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could throw off water chemistry in large freshwater bodies like the Great Lakes, putting the food web at risk."
Source: Daily Climate, 12/08/2015
"Democrats Might Give Big Oil a Big Win in Congress"
"The party is in talks with Republicans to lift a longtime ban on U.S. exports in exchange for clean-energy and other tax breaks."
Source: Politico, 12/08/2015
"Catherine McKenna Pushes for 1.5 C Target in Paris Climate Talks"
"PARIS — Canada has endorsed a call from small island nations to hold global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, putting Ottawa out of step with the United States, which has maintained a 2 C target."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 12/08/2015
"Oil Spill, High Waves: a Great Lakes Disaster Scenario"
"Imagine an oil slick quickly growing through the Straits of Mackinac from a rupture of the 62-year-old, twin pipelines known as Line 5 traversing the bottom of where Lakes Michigan and Huron connect."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 12/08/2015
"Superbug Known as ‘Phantom Menace’ on the Rise in U.S."
"A particularly dangerous superbug, dubbed the "phantom menace" by scientists, is on the rise in the United States, according to a report Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Source: Wash Post, 12/08/2015
"Once a Fixture, Climate Skeptics Say They Are Being Stifled in Paris"
"To be a climate change skeptic in Paris this week means facing heavy odds."
Source: Reuters, 12/08/2015
