"JPMorgan Settles Energy Market-Rigging Probe for $410 Million"
"NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $410 million to settle allegations it manipulated energy markets in California and the Midwest."
Source: LA Times, 07/31/2013
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"Boxer Faces Key Test on Toxic-Chemicals Law"
"WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barbara Boxer will seize control of efforts to regulate industrial chemicals during what lobbyists are calling a 'mega-hearing' Wednesday that will test her ability to navigate a major environmental law through a divided Congress."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 07/31/2013
"Home Distance From Benzene Sites Linked To Lymphoma Risk"
"How far a person lives from a manufacturing plant that releases the chemical benzene into the environment may determine their risk of developing immune system cancer, a new study suggests."
Source: Reuters, 07/31/2013
Industry Muscle Targets Federal Report on Carcinogens
Some chemicals can cause cancer. But the chemical industry, unable to get the results it wants from toxicologists at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, is now trying to get them by using lawyers, lobbyists, and legislators.
Source: Center for Public Integrity, 07/31/2013
"As New EPA Chief, Gina McCarthy Vows To Act on Climate Change"
"BOSTON -- The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency told an audience at Harvard Law School on Tuesday that cutting carbon pollution will 'feed the economic agenda of this country' and vowed to work with industry leaders on shaping policies aimed at curbing global warming."
"'Climate change will not be resolved overnight,' EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told the 310-member audience. 'But it will be engaged over the next three years. That I can promise you.'
Source: Wash Post, 07/31/2013
"Saving Frogs, Toads in Sierras: Residents Ask at What Cost?"
"FRESNO, Calif. -- Mountain residents and the Fresno County sheriff are squaring off against a federal wildlife agency over frogs and toads -- an Endangered Species Act fight that spreads like wildfire along the Sierra Nevada."
Source: Fresno Bee, 07/30/2013
"Rosemount Land Used For WWII Gun Powder Plant Focus of Controversy"
University of Minnesota officials want the feds to share the burden of cleaning up a 3500-acre ammo plant on land owned by the university.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 07/30/2013
"Olympic-Size 'North Pole Lake' Once Again Turns To Ice"
"Images of a scientific observation buoy floating in what appeared to be an Arctic lake near the North Pole lit up the online world in the past week, sparking questions about whether this was a sign of global warming."
Source: Reuters, 07/30/2013
"Sea Level Rise 'Locking In' Quickly, Cities Threatened"
"Measurements tell us that global average sea level is currently rising by about 1 inch per decade. But in an invisible shadow process, our long-term sea level rise commitment or 'lock-in' -- the sea level rise we don't see now, but which carbon emissions and warming have locked in for later years -- is growing 10 times faster, and this growth rate is accelerating."
Source: Climate Central, 07/30/2013
Above-Average Dead Zone Covers 5,840 Sq. Miles Along Louisiana Coast
"The Dead Zone, an area of oxygen so low that Gulf-bottom organisms are killed and fish and crabs swim away, covered 5,840 square miles of Gulf of Mexico seafloor along Louisiana's coastline this summer, according to a survey by scientists based at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 07/30/2013
