"The Nuclear Industry and Venting, Round 2"
"The debate over making post-Fukushima Daichi improvements to American reactors is getting down into the details, and one focus is pressure relief vents."
Source: Green/NYT, 07/06/2012
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"Did Global Warming Intensify the Derecho in Washington, D.C.?"
"The June 29 derecho, which caused widespread damage in Washington, D.C. blossomed to full fury in a record hot environment. Could the heat added to the atmosphere from manmade greenhouse gases have provided extra fuel to this explosive storm?
The amount of energy available to this storm was extreme and, wundergound weather historian Chris Burt called the number of all-time heat records set around the time 'especially extraordinary.'
Source: Capital Weather Gang, 07/06/2012
"More Than 1 Million in US Still Without Power Five Days After Storm"
"More than 1 million homes and businesses in a swath from Indiana to Virginia remained without power on Wednesday, five days after deadly storms tore through the region."
Source: Reuters, 07/06/2012
"Many Native Americans Live Next To Power Plants"
"MOAPA, Nev. -- Beyond the ancestral hunting fields and the rows of small, sparse homes, the cemetery at the Moapa River Indian Reservation sprawls across a barren hill with the tombstones of tribal members who died young."
Source: AP, 07/05/2012
"Insight: "Green Fleet" Sails, Meets Stiff Headwinds in Congress"
"A U.S. Navy oiler slipped away from a fuel depot on the Puget Sound in Washington state one recent day, headed toward the central Pacific and into the storm over the Pentagon's controversial green fuels initiative."
Source: Reuters, 07/03/2012
North Carolina: "Carney's Mistaken Vote Is Key in Fracking Override"
"Republicans successfully overrode [NC] Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of a fracking bill during a dramatic vote taken just after 11 p.m. Monday."
Source: Charlotte Observer, 07/03/2012
"Gas Planet: Is Gas A Bridge To Lower Carbon Future...or A Plank?"
"Natural gas is causing angst and excitement in local communities across the country, but the rise of fracking will have an impact on an issue that affects everyone on the planet: climate change. Gas Planet, a special hour of radio, explores whether unconventional natural gas can help or hinder efforts to solve climate change."
Source: Allegheny Front, 07/03/2012
"PG&E Identifies 239 Pipelines at Risk of Failure"
"Nearly two years after the pipeline explosion that killed eight people and devastated a neighborhood in San Bruno, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. considers 239 of its natural-gas transmission lines to be at risk of a similar failure, according to a company assessment obtained by The Chronicle."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 07/03/2012
BLM 'Auctions' 720-Million-Tons of Coal To Single Bidder For $1.10/Ton
"The Obama administration's Bureau of Land Management auctioned a major tract of Wyoming coal to Peabody Energy at a bargain-basement price of $1.10 per ton yesterday."
Source: Think Progress, 07/02/2012
"Alpha Set To Close 2 W.Va. Mines, Cut Back at Others"
"Alpha Natural Resources announced Wednesday it’s permanently closing two mines and a coal preparation plant in Logan County [WV], and scaling back operations at two other southern West Virginia operations."
Source: AP, 06/29/2012
