"Flawed Steel Still in Wide Use in Oil Pipelines"
"Anniversary of Exxon spill in Arkansas puts spotlight back on 48,400 miles of pipelines made with flawed technique phased out 40 years ago."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/06/2015
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Without Sand Subsidies, Oceanfront Home Values Could Drop
"Besieged by rising seas and ever more violent storms, many East Coast communities now slow the erosion of their beaches by reinforcing them with massive amounts of sand."
Source: NECIR, 04/03/2015
"Panel Says Seas Could Rise Up To 10.6 Inches On NC Coast By 2045"
"North Carolinians should get ready for a sea-level rise over the next three decades that could be as little as 3.5 inches on the southern coast and as much as 10.6 inches in the northern Outer Banks, a state science advisory panel said Tuesday."
Source: Raleigh News & Observer, 04/03/2015
"U.K. Government Scientists Hit With Media Restrictions"
"Advocates for science communication in the United Kingdom have expressed 'deep concern' about a change to the Civil Service Code for public workers, including researchers at government agencies. The three-sentence addition, put into place on 16 March, requires that all contact with media be approved in advance by the minister in charge of the relevant agency."
Source: Science News, 04/03/2015
"12 Protesters Arrested Blocking Road To Giant Telescope Site"
"HONOLULU — Police on the Big Island arrested 12 people Thursday who were trying to block workers from getting to a telescope construction site on a mountain considered sacred to Native Hawaiians."
Source: AP, 04/03/2015
"Oil Dispersant Used in Gulf Oil Spill Causes Lung And Gill Injuries"
"New research from investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that Corexit EC9500A, an oil-dispersal agent widely used in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, contributes to damage to epithelium cells within the lungs of humans and gills of marine creatures."
Source: Science Daily, 04/03/2015
"Russia's U.N. Climate Plan Not Ambitious Enough, Experts Say"
"Russia's offer to reduce emissions as part of a new global climate change agreement due to be agreed in December is not ambitious enough as it will require little additional effort, experts have said."
Source: Reuters, 04/03/2015
"Obama Pushes To Train Veterans for Solar Power"
"The Obama administration is aiming to train 75,000 workers — many of them military veterans — for the solar power industry."
Source: The Hill, 04/03/2015
"Hot Hands: Fingerprints of Climate Change All Over California Drought"
"California’s astonishingly low snowpack, a pathetic 5 percent of normal, and the severity of the drought afflicting the state isn’t some fluke. It’s a likely consequence of climate change, specifically the rising temperatures which are intensifying many of the processes causing the state to lose water at an alarming rate."
Source: Wash Post, 04/03/2015
EPA Approves 'Probably Carcinogenic' Pesticide for Use in 9 More States
"Environmentalists are outraged that the Environmental Protection Agency is allowing an herbicide that contains glyphosate to be used in nine more states, despite growing concerns that the chemical probably causes cancer."
Source: The Hill, 04/03/2015
