"Loving the Puget Sound to Death"
"Four decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, regulators haven’t kept up with the pollution pressure that growing populations put on America’s shorelines."
Source: Nation, 02/09/2015
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"A Call To Cull Homes Threatened By the Sea"
"As flood losses grow, so does sentiment to pay homeowners to move on"
Source: NECIR/Boston Globe, 02/09/2015
"Farmers File More Than 360 Corn Lawsuits Against Syngenta"
"Farmers and farm businesses in 20 states have now filed more than 360 lawsuits against agricultural chemicals-maker Syngenta, and hundreds more may be coming as a federal judge organizes the complex case so they can move forward."
Source: AP, 02/09/2015
"N.Y. Landfills Taking Tons of Pa. Drilling Waste"
"At least 460,000 tons and 23,000 barrels of waste from Pennsylvania drilling operations have been taken in by a handful of New York landfills since 2010, according to a new analysis Thursday."
Source: Ithaca Journal, 02/09/2015
"A 50th Anniversary Few Remember: LBJ's Warning on Carbon Dioxide"
"Fifty years ago this month President Johnson voiced concern over invisible fossil fuel emissions in a special message to Congress. It was the first time a U.S. president warned the nation about our carbon habit."
Source: Daily Climate, 02/09/2015
"Coalition Opposes President Obama’s Funding Cut for Great Lakes"
"President Obama’s budget proposal for 2016 includes a significant cut in funds for the Great Lakes Initiative, and some groups have responded by calling the president’s proposal a ' non-starter.'"
Source: Columbus Dispatch, 02/09/2015
"FutureGen To Be Shut Down After Feds Withdraw $1B in Funding"
"CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Coal companies working with the government on the long-planned $1.65 billion FutureGen clean-coal project said Tuesday they have no choice but to shut it down after the Department of Energy suspended the majority of its funding."
Source: AP, 02/09/2015
"Anti-Oilsands Activists In The U.S. Are Getting Visits From The FBI"
"WASHINGTON - Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States — knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members. The visitors are federal agents."
Source: Canadian Press, 02/09/2015
Obama: Climate an "Urgent And Growing Threat" To National Security
"President Barack Obama listed climate change alongside international terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and infectious disease in a new national security strategy plan released [Friday}."
Source: Climate Desk, 02/09/2015
"SpaceX Postpones Satellite Launch"
"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The SpaceX company has called off Sunday's launch of a deep-space observatory."
Source: AP, 02/09/2015
