"Plentiful Great Plains Power Blows in Opponents From All Corners"
"Not many years ago, there wasn't enough wind power coming from the Great Plains to worry about. Now there is, and lots of people are worrying."
Source: ClimateWire, 03/09/2010
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"EPA chief: Mountaintop-Removal Guidelines Coming Soon"
"U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said Monday her agency is not seeking to halt mountaintop removal, but will 'try to minimize, if not end, any environmental degradation to the water' caused by the practice."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 03/09/2010
"Supreme Court Won't Review Decision That Closed EPA Emissions 'Loophole'"
"The Supreme Court declined today to review a lower court's ruling prohibiting U.S. EPA from suspending normal emissions standards for major pollution sources during "startup, shutdown and malfunction" (SSM) periods."
Source: Greenwire, 03/09/2010
"Carp Solution Could Provide Financial Benefits"
"Proposals to block Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes have largely focused on the costs and inconvenience of closing off Chicago-area waterways into Lake Michigan. But now business and environmental groups are exploring a possible upside: a broadly based infrastructure investment that would benefit much of northern Illinois."
Source: NYTimes, 03/08/2010
"EU Climate Funding Threatened"
"The European Union's development chief may be forced to name and shame France, Germany and Italy for not living up to their aid commitments, contributing to a roughly $17 billion funding gap this year."
Source: Reuters, 03/08/2010
"Growing Low-Oxygen Zones in Oceans Worry Scientists"
"Scientists say global climate change may be contributing to the increased appearance of dead zones in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans where low oxygen levels are damaging the undersea ecosystem."
Source: McClatchy, 03/08/2010
"Odor Problem Pits Hog Farm Operator Against State, Divides Towns"
Those who sold their land to the massive Premium Standard hog-feeding operation in northern Missouri or went to work for it loved it. Those whose property was next door generally did not.
Source: Kansas City Star, 03/08/2010
"In Aftermath of Ash Spill, a New Round of Challenges"
"More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in United States history, the problem is seeping into several other states."
Source: AP, 03/08/2010
"Setting Wind Power Records in Texas"
"Texas, the nation's wind-power leader, set a new record for wind generation this morning, when -- at 6:37 a.m. -- about 19 percent of the electricity on the state's main grid was supplied by turbines."
Source: Greenwire, 03/08/2010
"EPA Delays Action on Mountaintop Removal Plan"
"The Obama administration has delayed action on a set of broad-ranging and specific measures to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal, after details of the plan were leaked to coal-state mining regulators."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 03/08/2010
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