"Carbon Trading on the Cheap"
If the United States wants to build a market-based approach to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, it should learn from Europe's failures.
Source: IEEE Spectrum, 07/02/2009
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FL Breakwater Could Hurt Sea Turtles
"Two of Florida's top politicians are pushing state and federal regulators to approve a taxpayer-funded breakwater that would slow down, but not stop, erosion threatening expensive Palm Beach County condos. But biologists fear the breakwater will block sea turtles from one of the most important nesting beaches in the state."
Source: St. Petersburg Times, 07/02/2009
"Researcher Show Farmers How To Save Songbirds"
"A unique partnership between University of Vermont researchers and a federal farm program is providing time and space for grassland songbirds to reproduce on land where their nests usually are destroyed by haying."
Source: Burlington Free Press, 07/02/2009
"EPA Ready To Settle Bay Area Pesticide Suit"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday a proposed settlement of a lawsuit that could result in scrutiny of how dozens of dangerous pesticides affect threatened and endangered species living around San Francisco Bay."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 07/02/2009
"Germany's Green-Energy Gap"
The offshore wind farms that were to replace Germany's nuclear and coal-fired power plants aren’t coming online quickly enough.
Source: IEEE Spectrum, 07/02/2009
"American Chestnut's Revival May Combat Climate Change"
"The American chestnut tree, which towered over eastern U.S. forests before succumbing to a deadly fungus in the early 20th century, appears to be an excellent sponge for greenhouse gases, according to a new study."
Source: Greenwire, 07/02/2009
"Gray Wolves Get Federal Protection Again"
"Advocates and U.S. government agree to list the gray wolf as "threatened" in Minnesota and to put ones in Wisconsin and Michigan on the endangered list."
Source: Minneapolis Star Trib, 07/02/2009
"Feds Could Seize Calif. Parks If Closed by Budget"
"California officials said Wednesday they are trying to avert the federal government's threat to seize six parks that could be closed to help reduce the state's ballooning budget deficit."
Source: AP, 07/02/2009
"EPA Proposes Regulations To Cut Ship Pollution"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing tougher rules to reduce air pollution from large oceangoing ships, including oil tankers and cargo vessels."
Source: AP, 07/02/2009
"Is Drilling To Blame For Texas Quakes?"
"People in North Texas worry about tornadoes, not earthquakes. That's not the case in the small town of Cleburne, just south of Fort Worth. They've had six quakes so far this month. Cleburne happens to sit on a huge, recently discovered natural gas deposit called Barnett Shale. There's been a lot of drilling, and some people wonder if that has triggered the earthquakes."
Source: NPR, 07/02/2009
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