Court Will Decide If Frackers Can Be Held Responsible For Earthquakes
"Oklahoma’s highest court is about to make a decision that could really shake up the way fracking companies do business in the state."
Source: Climate Progress, 01/28/2015
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"EPA Chief Headed To Vatican To Talk Climate Change"
"The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to make a brief Vatican visit at the end of the week on the topic of addressing climate change."
Source: National Catholic Reporter, 01/28/2015
"Monarch Butterfly Count Rises as Conservationists Warn of Extinction"
"A tally of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico rose to 56. 5 million this year from a record low of 34 million last year but conservationists said on Tuesday the increase was too slight to reduce the threat of extinction facing the insect."
Source: Reuters, 01/28/2015
"Obama's Base Mobilizes Against President's Free Trade Agenda"
Labor unions and environmentalists say the ultra-secret Trans Pacific Partnership trade treaty could nullify U.S. laws meant to protet Americans. They oppose the administration's bid for "fast-track" authority to present it to Congress on a take-it-or-leave it basis."
Source: Aljazeera America, 01/28/2015
"Southern California's Water Supply Threatened By Next Major Quake"
"Southern California gets the vast majority of its water from four aqueducts that flow from the north, but all of them cross the San Andreas Fault. That means millions of people are just one major earthquake away from drying out for a year or more."
Source: NPR, 01/28/2015
"Goverments Will Forge First Treaty Protecting Global Oceans"
"Government representatives from around the world agreed Saturday to develop the first legally-binding agreement to conserve marine life in the high seas and international seabed, an area covering roughly half the planet."
Source: ENS, 01/28/2015
"Rat Poison Killing Bobcats And Other Wildlife"
"When a bobcat mother and her kitten curled up together on the UC Santa Cruz campus in early September, the kitten couldn't have known its mother was dying of rat poison."
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, 01/28/2015
NTSB Cites Systemic Flaws in Safety Oversight of Gas Pipelines
"Three powerful accidents in recent years highlight weaknesses in the oversight of how natural gas providers maintain the largest pipelines in their networks, accident investigators said today as they issued more than two dozen safety recommendations."
Source: AP, 01/28/2015
"Obama’s Plan: Allow Drilling in Atlantic, but Limit It in Arctic"
"The Obama administration moved Tuesday to open up a vast stretch of East Coast waters to oil and gas drilling, a decision that could have a profound impact on the economic and environmental future of states from Virginia to Georgia. The move also adds a new dimension to the legacy of President Obama."
Source: NY Times, 01/28/2015
