"Better Cleanup Planned at Former Chrome Plant"
Neighborhood organizers won a settlement Tuesday that promises better cleanup of "green water" runoff from a former chrome production plant in Jersey City.
Source: NY Times, 04/06/2011
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"Alberta Conservation Plan Stuns Oil Patch"
"The Alberta government has proposed new environmental rules that would revoke a number of oil sands leases – including those which already have active projects – in an effort to protect sensitive habitat, wildlife and forest land in the most industrialized area of the province."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 04/06/2011
"Surging Renewable Sector Pulls Even With Nuclear Power in U.S."
"Looking at total domestic production, renewable fuels pulled even with nuclear power in 2010, according to federal data. But nuclear still powers 20 percent of U.S. grid, while wind and solar are barely on the map."
Source: Daily Climate, 04/06/2011
White House Promises Veto of 'Koch Brothers Appreciation Act'
"In case there was any doubt, the White House on Tuesday issued a formal statement opposing a bill now before the House that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases for the purpose of combating climate change." The House could pass it as soon as Wednesday, April 6.
Source: Green (NYT), 04/06/2011
"2 Bodies Found After Tenn. Sewage Plant Gives Way"
"GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- Crews on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two workers from the rubble of a wastewater-treatment plant wall that collapsed earlier in the day, while officials continued to investigate what caused the breach that released sewage into a rain-swollen river at Great Smoky Mountains National Park."
Bill Poovey reports for the Associated Press April 5, 2011.
Source: AP, 04/06/2011
Transocean Execs Give Up Fraction of Their Bonuses
Five top executives at Transocean, the company that owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, gave up some $250,000 of the $898,282 in bonuses they received this month. The firm had been criticized for claiming a "best year" in safety of operations after 11 people died on the rig. One quarter of the bonus amount was explicitly tied to safety.
Source: Houston Chronicle, 04/06/2011
"Rising Oil Prices Beginning To Hurt US Economy"
"Just when companies have finally stepped up hiring, rising oil prices are threatening to halt the U.S. economy's gains."
Source: AP, 04/06/2011
"U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan's Nuclear Plant"
"United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
Source: NY Times, 04/06/2011
ASEH Plenary Session: William Cronon Discusses "Sustainability: A Short History of the Future"
Public talk by William Cronon, historian from the University of Wisconsin and author of "Scholar as Citizen" blog now at the center of the controversy over academic freedom; public discussion of immigration and the environment — both at the American Society for Environmental History's annual conference in Phoenix in mid-April 2011.
"Ozone Layer Faces Record Loss Over Arctic"
"The depletion of the ozone layer shielding Earth from damaging ultraviolet rays has reached an unprecedented low over the Arctic this spring because of harmful chemicals and a cold winter, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday."
Source: AP, 04/05/2011
