"Tiny Minnesota City Draws a Line in the Frac Sand Boom"
"Winona will be the first U.S. city to monitor pollution from trucks hauling frac sand en route to fracking operations."
Source: InsideClimate News, 11/12/2013
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"A Jolt to Complacency on Food Supply"
"For a look at what climate change could do to the world’s food supply, consider what the weather did to the American Corn Belt last year."
Source: NY Times, 11/12/2013
"East Texans Seek Shutdown of Pegasus Pipeline"
"GUN BARREL CITY — For nearly 83 years, Jim Howell was hardly one to cause a political ruckus. But this spring, he realized that a crude oil superhighway ran through his backyard — just two feet below his patchy lawn and seven feet beyond a newly built porch displaying a sign declaring 'cowpokes welcome.'"
Source: Texas Tribune, 11/12/2013
World Bank Reviews Delay Of Pollution Controls At S African Coal Plant
"A World Bank-backed coal plant in South Africa is seeking to delay the implementation of pollution controls, a request that is raising new concerns about the bank's ability to enforce environmental standards on projects it supports."
Source: Huffington Post, 11/12/2013
Alabama Oil-Train Derailment Raises Issues About Crude Shipment Safety
"The second explosive oil-train derailment this year, which has finally burned out in rural Alabama, may raise new questions about the safety of the crude-by-rail boom, pointing to problems beyond those that surfaced following the earlier tragedy in Quebec."
Source: Reuters, 11/12/2013
"Telling Secrets To Stop Burning Natural Gas In U.S. Fracking Boom"
"The North American energy industry's reputation for ironclad secrecy is starting to crack as producers discover a little transparency can help save millions of dollars."
Source: Reuters, 11/12/2013
"Key West Awash With Plans For Rising Sea Level"
"Key West is one of the U.S. cities most vulnerable to sea level rise, and so it's adopting regulations requiring new homes to have freshwater cisterns and to be built higher than the current flood plain level."
Source: NPR, 11/12/2013
Philippines Urges Action on Climate Talks Deadlock After Typhoon Haiyan
"UN negotiations in Warsaw must deliver emergency climate pathway as new storm brews in the Pacific, says government."
Source: Guardian, 11/12/2013
Award-winning Reporter Shares Insight into Coastal Coverage
Reporter Neena Satija, now with The Texas Tribune, reveals the "Inside Story" on the series she wrote for The Connecticut Mirror, which won SEJ's 2013 Award for Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market.
"For Many Fukushima Evacuees, the Truth Is They Won't Be Going Home"
"For many of Japan's oldest nuclear refugees, all they want is to be allowed back to the homes they were forced to abandon. Others are ready to move away, severing ties to the ghost towns that remain in the shadow of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant."
Source: Reuters, 11/11/2013
