"Why Does Old King Coal Still Rule?"
"Despite better alternatives and concern about climate change, coal isn’t disappearing any time soon."
Source: Slate, 11/05/2012
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USGS Estimates Possible Greenhouse Gas From Melting Arctic Permafrost
"FRISCO, Colo. -- Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey say they’ve quantified the amount of greenhouse gases that could be released into the atmosphere as Arctic permafrost starts to melt."
Source: Summit County Voice, 11/05/2012
"Levee Rebuilding Questioned After Sandy Breach"
"Every time a storm brings flooding to a large metropolitan area, there are calls to improve the levee systems that are designed to prevent flooding."
Source: NPR, 11/05/2012
"Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies"
"How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill?"
Source: Mother Jones, 11/05/2012
"A Hard Look at U.S. Reactor Hardware After Fukushima"
"Over the objections of the nuclear industry, the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is planning to recommend the adoption of a new rule requiring American reactors similar to the ones at Fukushima Daiichi to install emergency vents with filters on them."
Source: NY Times, 11/05/2012
"Pennsylvania Report Left Out Data on Poisons in Water Near Gas Site"
"PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania officials reported incomplete test results that omitted data on some toxic metals that were found in drinking water taken from a private well near a natural gas drilling site, according to legal documents released this week."
Source: NY Times, 11/05/2012
"Cold Weather and New Storm Add To Victims' Misery"
"NEW YORK -- Shivering victims of Superstorm Sandy went to church Sunday to pray for deliverance as cold weather settling in across the New York metropolitan region — and another powerful storm forecast for the middle of the week — added to their misfortunes and deepened the gloom."
Source: AP, 11/05/2012
"Sandy Exposes a Coast at Risk"
"Superstorm Sandy delivered only a glancing blow to Delaware, but it brought new focus on man’s attempts to manage nature, to hold back the sea."
Source: Wilmington News Journal, 11/05/2012
"US Presidential Election: Climate Change on the Agenda"
"With just days until the US presidential vote, the devastation caused by megastorm Sandy has re-injected climate change into a neck-and-neck campaign that had largely ignored it until now."
Source: AFP, 11/05/2012
"State Representative Calls for Probe Of DEP Water Testing Reports
"The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has created incomplete lab reports and used them to dismiss complaints that Marcellus Shale gas development operations have contaminated residential water supplies and made people sick, according to court documents and other sources."
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/02/2012
