Climate Refugees: "Fleeing Drought in the Horn of Africa"
Refugees from global warming are arriving at camps in Kenya.
Source: LA Times, 10/26/2009
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"Feds Probe Cause of Puerto Rico Fuel Depot Fire"
"Federal investigators entered a smoldering fuel depot for the first time Sunday to investigate what may have caused an explosion that forced hundreds to evacuate and spewed thick, toxic smoke across the region."
Source: AP, 10/26/2009
"Back Where Virus Started, New Scrutiny of Pig Farming"
"Many experts think pig farming presents a serious and overlooked risk to public health. Proof of that assertion -- indirect but indisputable, in the opinion of virologists -- is the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza."
Source: Wash Post, 10/26/2009
"Pennsylvania Tapped, Drillers Not"
Gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation of Pennsylvania is bringing an economic boom there -- even as oil and gas drilling has fallen dramatically nationwide. But the gas is tax-exempt in Pennsylvania.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/26/2009
"Obama Presses Case for Renewable Energy"
"Taking aim at business interests that have lobbied against an energy and climate bill moving through Congress, President Obama urged lawmakers on Friday to rally around the push toward using more renewable energy."
Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2009
"Campaign Against Emissions Picks Number"
On Saturday, campaigners against global warming tried "a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef, all centered on the number 350."
Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2009
"Senate Global Warming Bill Is Seeking to Cushion the Impact on Industry"
"The Senate bill aimed at reducing global warming pollution will initially grant billions of dollars of free emissions permits to utilities and industry but will require the bulk of the money be returned to consumers and taxpayers, according to newly released details."
Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2009
"EPA Aims to Widen Rules on Lead Paint in Older Homes"
"The Environmental Protection proposed expanding requirements on how contractors must deal with lead-based paint to more, older homes, part of a broader effort by the agency to tighten environmental protections for consumers."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 10/23/2009
"Study Raises Red Flag Over Home Insecticides, Autoimmune Diseases"
"New research suggests a link between women's exposure to household insecticides -- including roach and mosquito killers -- and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus."
Source: USA TODAY, 10/23/2009
"EPA Proposal To Cut Great Lakes Ship Emissions Stirs the Waters"
"An Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would compel [Great Lakes] vessels to burn cleaner fuel and upgrade their engines has sparked a furious behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign that has come to a head this week, pitting congressional Democrats against a Democratic administration as lawmakers allied with Midwestern and Alaskan shippers pressure the EPA to back down and protect jobs."
Source: Wash Post, 10/23/2009
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