"Congress To Vote on Bill To Ban Microbead Hygiene Products in US"
"House committee unanimously approves proposed legislation to phase out such personal care products, whose exfoliants can end up in rivers and lakes".
Source: Guardian, 11/19/2015
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"Wastewater Spills Untracked in Texas, Masking Pollution"
"It took decades for the stand of hardwood trees near Lake Texoma to grow tall. It took less than a day for 3,000 gallons of drilling wastewater to destroy them."
Source: EnergyWire, 11/19/2015
"'Keep It in the Ground' Event Targets Utah Oil And Gas Leasing"
"A national movement urging President Barack Obama to stop any new federal leases for fossil fuels turned its attention on Salt Lake City Tuesday, staging a victory party after the Bureau of Land Management postponed an oil and gas lease sale."
Source: Deseret News, 11/18/2015
"Rich Countries Agree To Slash Export Subsidies for Coal Plants"
"After a concerted push from the United States, members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development agreed Tuesday to slash subsidies aimed at exporting technology for coal-fired power plants."
Source: Wash Post, 11/18/2015
"UK Proposes Closing All Its Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2025"
"Britain wants to close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025 and lower their output from 2023, the government said on Wednesday, making it the first major economy to put a date on shutting down polluting coal plants to curb carbon emissions."
Source: Reuters, 11/18/2015
"Statoil to Depart Chukchi Sea; Latest to Drop Alaska Efforts"
"The Norwegian oil company Statoil said on Tuesday that it would pull out of the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, just weeks after Royal Dutch Shell abandoned the treacherous waters there after spending billions of dollars on oil exploration work."
Source: Reuters, 11/18/2015
"Minigrids Seen as Fix for 620 Million Africans Without Power"
"Power grids that work at a fraction of the scale of a traditional utility have gained support from banks and developers as a way to bring power to the 620 million people across Africa that lack access to electricity."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/17/2015
"Manure From Millions of Hogs Fuels Natural Gas Project"
"One recipe for renewable natural gas goes: Place manure from about 2 million hogs in lagoons, cover them with an impermeable material and let it bake until gas from the manure rises. Then, use special equipment to clean the gas of its impurities and ship the finished product out."
Source: AP, 11/16/2015
"Canada’s Trudeau Orders Tanker Ban on B.C. North Coast"
"Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today instructed his incoming cabinet members to work together to 'formalize a moratorium on crude oil tanker traffic on British Columbia’s north coast.'"
Source: ENS, 11/16/2015
France To Go on With UN Climate Conference Despite Paris Terror Attacks
"The French government has vowed to push on with the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris this month and will boost security for world leaders following Friday night's deadly terrorist attack."
Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 11/16/2015
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