"Massive Rim Fire Continues To Reshape Lives And Topography"
"The blaze, now 134,000 acres, pushes into Yosemite National Park. Each day, what it does depends on the wind."
Source: LA Times, 08/26/2013
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"Limit Urged for Cancer-Causing Chromium in California Drinking Water"
"California public health officials suggest limiting hexavalent chromium in drinking water to 10 parts per billion. Environmentalists say that's not nearly strict enough."
Source: LA Times, 08/23/2013
Drought Brings Tough Times for Texas Rice Farms and Visiting Ducks
"Ronald Gertson usually plants about 3,000 acres of rice each year on his family farm in Wharton County, Texas. But because of emergency water regulations set in 2012 due to central Texas' painfully persistent drought, Gertson could plant about 40 percent of that land."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/23/2013
"Bringing Back the Night: the Fight Against Light Pollution"
"As evidence mounts that excessive use of light is harming wildlife and adversely affecting human health, new initiatives in France and elsewhere are seeking to turn down the lights that flood an ever-growing part of the planet."
Source: YaleE360, 08/23/2013
"Dam Removals Open Northeast Rivers to Fish, Recreation"
"WASHINGTON, DC -- A dam that has blocked Maryland’s Patapsco River for nearly 100 years will be removed shortly, utilizing a $3.57 million grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Restoration Center to the nonprofit organization American Rivers."
Source: ENS, 08/23/2013
Powder R Coal Lease Auction Gets No Bids For 1st Time In Wyo. History
"CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- For the first time, nobody has bid on a federal coal tract offered for sale in Wyoming after the company that initially sought to mine the location determined that it couldn't do so profitably."
Source: AP, 08/23/2013
"Sides Lining Up In FERC Nomination Fight"
"It’s not unusual for think tanks, lobbyists, PR firms and deep-pocketed foundations to draw battle lines when the president nominates a new agency head — unless the agency is an obscure regulatory body with an ungainly nickname like 'FERC.'"
Source: Politico, 08/23/2013
Report: Catastrophic Enbridge Pipeline Rupture Risk Still Too Big
"A 'complete breakdown of safety' in 2010 has not been sufficiently addressed, a neglect that may spell trouble for its other aging lines, the report says."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/23/2013
"U.S. to Review Claims Oil Companies Undercut Renewables"
"The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will examine allegations that oil companies may be undermining efforts to distribute renewable fuels."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/23/2013
"U.S. Wildfire Managers Weigh Help From Military, Foreign Countries"
"SALMON, Idaho -- U.S. wildfire managers facing increasingly strained resources have opened talks with Pentagon commanders and Canadian officials about possible reinforcements of personnel and aircraft to battle dozens of blazes raging across the drought-parched American West."
Source: Reuters, 08/23/2013
