"In Price of Farmland, Echoes of Another Boom"
"As prices for agricultural land surge across America’s grain belt, regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming."
Source: NY Times, 03/04/2011
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"Corn-Based Ethanol Producers Are Cranking Up as Oil Prices Soar"
"Corn-based ethanol is the renewable fuel environmentalists love to hate. But as turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has sent oil prices soaring, U.S.-made ethanol is making a comeback."
Source: LA Times, 03/03/2011
"US EPA Says Big Budget Cut Would Hurt Public Health"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to protect citizens from premature death and other health problems would be gutted if Congress slashes funding as threatened by Republican lawmakers, its chief said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 03/03/2011
"The Governator Goes Green"
"Arnold Schwarzenegger told you he’d be back. Just months removed from a raucous seven years as California governor, the global warming gladiator is about to hopscotch around the planet in his new role as a green technology cheerleader."
Source: Politico, 03/02/2011
"Wastewater Recycling No Cure-All in Gas Process"
Natural gas drillers hail newly begun reuse and recycling of the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater as a breakthrough that will mitigate harmful effects of their operations. But not all of it is being recycled. Some of it is being spread on roads and contaminating surface water -- rather than groundwater, as before.
Source: NY Times, 03/02/2011
"Alberta’s Oil Sands: Hard Evidence, Missing Data, New Promises"
A new report from the Royal Society of Canada provides a mixed verdict on the environmental impacts of oil sands extraction in Alberta.
Source: EHP, 03/02/2011
"PG&E Rejected Warning on Shut-Off Valves"
"The California utility whose gas pipeline exploded last fall had rejected federal recommendations to install more automatic shut-off valves to help reduce the risks from a rupture and fire, an investigative panel was told Tuesday."
Source: USA TODAY, 03/02/2011
"Iowa Lawmakers, Lobbyists Debate Ban on BPA Plastics"
Some Iowa lawmakers are pushing a bill they say would protect children by removing from the market many plastic products containing BPA, which some scientists think harms health. Lobbyists for the chemical industry say that's premature.
Source: Des Moines Register, 03/01/2011
"Trial Begins for Man Who Thwarted Oil-Gas Auction"
"Hundreds of activists marched to the federal courthouse Monday to support a man who became an environmental folk hero by faking the purchase of $1.7 million of federal oil-and-gas drilling leases in an act of civil disobedience."
Source: CNBC, 03/01/2011
Australia Spends Billions on Incentives for Fossil Fuels
"[Australian] taxpayers spend about 11 times more encouraging the use of fossil fuels than on climate change programs - and the sum is growing."
Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 03/01/2011
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