"Buffett Bets Big On Coal"
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet is planning to buy the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad. Observers say this is a bet on the future of coal in the U.S. energy mix.
Source: New Republic, 11/04/2009
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"Trimble Coal Ash Pond Worries Environmentalists"
"An expanded LG&E ash pond next to the Ohio River in Trimble County would have 100 foot tall walls and store more ash than burst across hundreds of acres in Tennessee last year."
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 11/04/2009
"Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat"
"Researchers cannot agree whether the melting is attributable mainly to humanity’s role in global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 11/04/2009
"Senate Panel's Climate Markup in Holding Pattern"
"A partisan standoff over Senate global warming legislation clouded the start of the Environment and Public Works Committee's markup of the sweeping proposal today with just one Republican in attendance."
Source: Greenwire, 11/04/2009
"Angela Merkel Presses U.S. on Climate in Speech To Congress"
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the United States Tuesday to agree to binding climate goals, telling U.S. lawmakers in a speech to Congress there was 'no time to lose' in the fight against global warming."
Source: Reuters, 11/04/2009
"Boxer: Climate Bill Markup Will Go Forward Tuesday, With or Without GOP"
"Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will go ahead and mark up climate legislation in her committee Tuesday, she announced Monday morning, even if the Republicans try to block her."
Source: Wash Post, 11/03/2009
"Fire Breaks Out at Leaking Timor Sea Oil Well"
"A huge fire has been blazing at an oil rig in the Timor Sea since Sunday, after an attempt by the oil company to kill a leaking well. The West Atlas rig is located directly above the Montara well head platfrom, which has been leaking oil and gas since August 21."
Source: ENS, 11/03/2009
"New Polar Bear Rule Sent To White House"
"Protection for polar bears' shrinking icy habitat is the subject of a proposed rule sent to the White House by the Interior Department."
Source: Reuters, 11/03/2009
"Court Orders DOE to Reconsider Calif. Washing-Machine Standard"
"The Energy Department must reconsider California's energy- and water-saving standards for residential washing machines, a federal court ruled [last] week."
Source: Greenwire, 11/03/2009
"IUCN Red List: 17,291 Species Threatened"
"The 2009 edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was released today, and the news isn't good: 17,291 species out of 47,677 assessed species, or 36 percent, are threatened with extinction."
Source: Scientific American, 11/03/2009
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