Extreme Weather 2011: Billion-Dollar Catastrophes Smash US Record
"America smashed the record for billion-dollar weather disasters this year with a deadly dozen – and counting."
Source: AP, 12/08/2011
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"EPA Tweaks Proposed Boiler Rule, Zeroes in on Largest Emitters"
"U.S. EPA [Friday] released a reworked package of proposed rules to tackle toxic emissions from 201,000 of the largest boilers and incinerators nationwide, hoping to clear up complaints from manufacturing groups as the agency clamps down on the industrial boilers that are one of the largest U.S. sources of harmful air pollution."
Source: Greenwire, 12/05/2011
Special Report: "Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities"
A special joint investigation by National Public Radio, the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News, the Investigative News Network, and others shows that hundreds of U.S. facilities have been violating their Clean Air Act permits for years without running into federal or state enforcement. In many cases, the pollution has made people sick, and sometimes local communities have taken up the job that federal and state agencies have failed at.
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Source: iWatch/NPR/INN, 11/17/2011
"U.S. Delays Decision on Pipeline Until After Election"
"The Obama administration, under sharp pressure from officials in Nebraska and restive environmental activists, announced Thursday that it would review the route of the disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline, effectively delaying any decision about its fate until after the 2012 election."
Source: NY Times, 11/11/2011
"Yellowstone Oil Spill Debris Torched By Montana Officials"
"LAUREL, Mont. — State workers on Tuesday set fire to an oil-tainted logjam on an island along the Yellowstone River, the last of dozens of debris piles smeared with crude from an Exxon Mobil pipeline break that dumped 42,000 gallons of oil into the waterway."
Source: AP, 11/10/2011
"Judge Restricts Release of Emails Among Climate Scientists"
"A county Circuit judge in Virginia has sided with the University of Virginia's effort to restrict the release of personal emails from one of its former faculty members."
Source: LA Times, 11/03/2011
"In North Dakota, Flames of Wasted Natural Gas Light the Prairie"
"NEW TOWN, N.D. — Across western North Dakota, hundreds of fires rise above fields of wheat and sunflowers and bales of hay. At night, they illuminate the prairie skies like giant fireflies."
Source: NY Times, 09/27/2011
"'Missing' Global Heat May Hide In Deep Oceans"
"More than 30 million people were displaced last year by environmental and weather-related disasters across Asia, experts have warned, and the problem is only likely to grow worse as climate change exacerbates such problems."
Source: Guardian, 09/20/2011
"Summer Arctic Sea Ice Melt At Or Near Record"
"Arctic sea ice this summer melted to a record low extent or will come a close second, two different research institutes said on Tuesday, confirming a trend which could yield an ice-free summer within a decade."
Source: Reuters, 09/14/2011
"Drought Intensifies In The South, No End In Sight"
"Record-breaking triple-digit temperatures were prolonging a devastating drought that has been baking the South and the dry spell could extend into next year and beyond, climate experts said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 09/02/2011
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