"Furious Winter Storm Paralyzes South, East"
"The major winter storm that has left hundreds of thousands in the southern USA without power is blazing a trail up the East Coast."
Source: USA TODAY, 02/13/2014
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NOLA Readers Urge Tracking Spending of BP Spill Money, Gulf Restoration
"Keeping track of the billions of dollars to be spent on natural resources restoration projects in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states in the aftermath of the BP oil spill was the top issue raised during an impromptu roundtable of environmental leaders in New Orleans this week."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 02/12/2014
"Sens. Feinstein, Boxer Propose Emergency Drought Legislation"
"WASHINGTON -- Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer proposed emergency drought legislation Tuesday ahead of President Obama's planned visit to Fresno, as Democrats scrambled to counter GOP charges that trying to save rivers and fish during California's historic drought is destroying the nation's chief source of fruits and vegetables."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 02/12/2014
"Nuclear Issue in Limbo as Indecision Grips Japan"
"TOKYO — Several industrialized countries have turned their backs on nuclear power as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including one that has already begun permanently shutting functioning plants. That country is not Japan."
Source: NY Times, 02/12/2014
"Obama, Hollande Cooperate on 2015 Global Climate Change Pact"
"WASHINGTON, DC, February 11, 2014 (ENS) – The leaders of France and the United States today agreed to expand their work to curb climate change in advance of the United Nations climate summit next year in Paris, where the world is expected to forge a global climate agreement to take effect in 2020."
Source: ENS, 02/12/2014
"New U.S. Ban on Ivory Sales Aimed at Saving More Elephants"
"The White House announced a new ban on sales of elephant ivory within the United States on Tuesday, part of a plan aimed at cracking down on trafficking of wildlife that is threatening some species, including the African elephant, with extinction."
Source: Reuters, 02/12/2014
"Obama Administration Tightens the Use of Diesel in Fracking"
"WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday moved to exert more control over the injection of diesel fuel deep underground to extract oil and natural gas, its first foray into addressing the potential contamination of water from the controversial technique."
Source: Tribune, 02/12/2014
"One Injured, One Missing at Southwest Pa. Gas Well Fire"
"DILLINER, Pa. -- One worker has been injured and another is missing after a natural gas well explosion and fire in southwestern Pennsylvania, within miles of the West Virginia border."
Source: AP, 02/12/2014
"Duke Plans to Dredge River as Coal Ash Deal Dumped"
"RALEIGH, N.C. -- Duke Energy said Tuesday it plans to begin dredging coal ash out of a North Carolina river as the state's environmental agency moved to scuttle a previously proposed settlement with the company over pollution leaking from waste dumps at its power plants."
Source: AP, 02/12/2014
"'Significant' Slurry Spill Blackens Kanawha Creek"
"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than 100,000 gallons of coal slurry poured into an eastern Kanawha County stream Tuesday in what officials were calling a 'significant spill' from a Patriot Coal processing facility."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 02/12/2014
