"UN Issued With Roadmap on How To Avoid Climate Catastrophe"
"Report is the first of its kind to prescribe concrete actions that the biggest 15 economies must take to keep warming below 2C""
Source: Guardian, 07/09/2014
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"Study Finds Unusual Contamination in Animals Near Oilsands"
"Scientists at the University of Manitoba say they have linked pollution in the oilsands to elevated cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for the first time."
Source: Calgary Herald, 07/09/2014
As Farm Lobby Lines Up Against Water Regs, EPA Begins Hard Sell
"WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency, admitting that 'we haven’t had the best relationship with the agriculture industry in the past,' is beginning a push for a proposed new water rule that has generated strong opposition from farm communities."
Source: McClatchy, 07/09/2014
"West Virginia Company Fined $11K in Chemical Spill"
"A federal agency has fined the company that spilled chemicals into West Virginia's largest water supply $11,000 for a pair of violations."
Source: AP, 07/09/2014
"Four Years After Deadly Blast, Tesoro Mostly Unscathed"
"It was the state’s worst industrial accident in nearly 50 years."
Source: KUOW/NPR, 07/09/2014
"Going, Going, Almost Gone: A Worm Verges On Extinction"
"Guinea worm is about as close to a real-life Alien event as you can get — a parasitic worm mates inside a person's abdomen, grows up to 3-feet long and then exits (painfully) from a blister. But the worm's final chapter is near: The world is closer than ever to wiping the parasite off the face of the Earth."
Source: NPR, 07/09/2014
"Six Vials of Smallpox Discovered in Laboratory Near Washington"
"Scientists said Tuesday that six glass vials found in a storeroom in a government laboratory outside Washington contained the smallpox virus. It was the second incident in a month that revealed government mishandling of potentially deadly infectious agents."
Source: NY Times, 07/09/2014
"Iraq Tells UN 'Terrorist Groups' Seized Former Chemical Weapons Depot"
"Iraq's government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to 'armed terrorist groups' and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country's U.N. envoy told the United Nations."
Source: Reuters, 07/09/2014
Formula E: Does Electric Car Racing Herald a New Era for Motor Sport?
"The noise is part spaceship, part jet engine and part Tron bike, according to Alex Tai, the head of Virgin’s Formula E racing team. The high-powered, all-electric cars zooming around the Donington Park race track are certainly far quieter than the chest-rumbling, ear-splitting noise that hits Formula One fans."
Source: Guardian, 07/08/2014
"Outcry Prompts Expedited Plan To Move Fuel at Kewaunee Nuclear Plant"
"The Kewaunee nuclear power plant stopped producing electricity more than a year ago, but it left behind highly hazardous waste that has no place to go."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 07/08/2014
