Congress Poised to Revise Regulation Chemicals in Commercial Products
"Will the bills seeking to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act really protect Americans?"
Source: Earth Island Journal, 07/17/2015
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"No Solace for Food-Deprived Polar Bears as Sea Ice Wanes"
"Polar bears are the kings of the ice surface covering the top of the globe, but the ongoing loss of the Arctic sea ice on which they hunt seals is causing summer food deprivation that threatens these imposing white-furred predators."
Source: Reuters, 07/17/2015
"Sea Warming Leads to Ban on Fishing in the Arctic"
"The United States and four other nations that border the Arctic Ocean pledged on Thursday to prohibit commercial fishing in the international waters of the Arctic until more scientific research could be done on how warming seas and melting ice are affecting fish stocks."
Source: NY Times, 07/17/2015
"Science Confirms 2014 Was Hottest Yet Recorded, On Land And Sea"
The year 2014, the latest for which complete global data are available, was the hottest ever recorded on land and on sea. The signature lower-atmosphere warming indicates the cause is manmade greenhouse emissions.
Source: NPR, 07/17/2015
"Nexen Pipeline Leak in Alberta Spills 5 Million Litres"
"One of the largest leaks in Alberta history has spilled about five million litres of emulsion from a Nexen Energy pipeline at the company's Long Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray."
Source: CBS News, 07/17/2015
"U.S. Proposes New Rules to Protect Streams From Coal Pollution"
"The Interior Department on Thursday proposed a new rule aimed at protecting streams from the high level of pollution caused by a technique known as mountaintop removal mining."
Source: NY Times, 07/17/2015
"Seabirds Suffering Massive Population Declines"
"Consider the albatross. A bird that mates for life and flies over 6,000 miles for food, the albatross has seen profound population declines over the past several decades. It appears now as though a harbinger for its own demise."
Source: CBS News, 07/16/2015
Bottled Water Industry Lobbies To Stop National Park Cleanup Move
"The National Park Service thought it had a good strategy for reining in the discarded water bottles that clog the trash cans and waste stream of the national parks: stop selling disposable bottles and let visitors refill reusable ones with public drinking water."
Source: Wash Post, 07/16/2015
"Plaquemines Parish Rejects BP Settlement Offer as Too Small"
"Plaquemines Parish has turned down a settlement offer from BP to pay for damages caused during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill because it was too small to compensate for the losses, two lawyers representing the parish in settlement talks said Monday (July 13)."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 07/16/2015
"GOP Subpoenas Obama Regulatory Officials on Water Rule"
"House Republicans moved Tuesday to force the Obama administration to disclose certain documents related to the development of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) major water jurisdiction rule."
Source: The Hill, 07/16/2015
