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Daily Clips 6.27.14
Sustainable Energy Environment Coalition
Top news stories:
On
the
one-year anniversary
of
launching his climate action plan, President Barack Obama derided
congressional opponents
of
cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
n
most communities across
the
U.S.,
Obama said, it's pretty rare
that
you encounter people who say
that
carbon
pollution
is not a
problem.
Except, he said, in Congress.
The new Pew Political
Typology report
shows huge majorities of all
four
Democratic-leaning
groups
support the development of wind, solar and
hydrogen
alternatives to oil, coal and natural gas.
The families
of
a dozen
of
the
19
elite
Arizona
firefighters
killed last year in
the
nation's
worst wildfire
in
eight decades have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit claiming the state was negligent in its efforts
to
battle
the
massive blaze.
Producers, refiners and pipeline companies are questioning exactly
how
much the Obama
administration has relaxed its position on crude exports after the Commerce Department said June
24
it
had categorized some lightly processed oil as exportable. The
U.S.
has prohibited mos t crude exports for
four decades.
The
2 14
World
Cup in Brazil has been
notable
for more than
hard-fought
matches and stoppage
time
goals; it's also
the first time
official water breaks have been called
due to
excessive heat and
humidity.
And
as
climate change drives
up
not
only
average
temperatures but extreme
heat and
humidity,
experts
say outdoor events like the World Cup could pose a danger
to
the health
of
athletes.
Energy news:
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A
new
advertising campaign
from
a liberal group argues
that
violence in Iraq and
the
resulting effects on
the
oil market expand
the
need
for the
government to increase
the
amount
of
renewable fuels mixed
with
gasoline.
Gasoline's price will increase up to 9 percent, and diesel fuel will rise by up to 14
percent
by 2017
because of the Renewable Fuel Standard RFS) if Congress does
not
repeal it,
the
Congressional Budget
Office CBO) said Thursday.
The
Department
of Energy (DOE) touted the carbon-capture technology it is funding Thursday, saying a
project at
a hydrogen
production
facility in Port
Arthur,
Texas, has now captured more than 1 million
tons
of carbon dioxide.
A California wind farm will become
the first
in
the nation
to avoid prosecution if eagles are
injured
or die
when they run into
the giant
turning blades,
the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday.
Sen. Lisa
Murkowski
(R-Alaska) continued to press for the
administration
to lift a decades-old ban on
crude oil exports Thursday, one day after a Commerce
Department
ruling allowed two companies to
export a form of
ultralight
crude.
Saying it's a side
of the
story
he won't
hear
from
California billionaires, Senate
Minority
Leader Mitch
McConnel l (R-Ky.) is inviting President Obama to visit with coal families to see
the
impact of his climate
rule up close.
The United States is still growing older,
but
the trend is reversing in the Great Plains, thanks to a liberal
application
of
oil. The aging baby boom
generation
helped inch up
the
median age in
the
United States
last year from 37.5 years to 37.6 years, according to data released Thursday by
the
Census Bureau.
Norfolk
Southern Corp. NSC +0.32% has become the first big American
freight
railroad to require its
customers to give the railroad legal
protection
against damages from fires, explosions or the release of
hazardous materials carried in tank cars that
don't
meet
the
rail industry's latest standards.
A federal appeals court yesterday
for the
second
t ime
rejected
the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission's
attempt
to divvy up the cost
of
high-voltage power lines in
the
Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.
Pennsylvania
environmental
regulators are wading through more
than
25,000 public comments on a
proposed overhaul of the state's oil and gas regulations.
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The sun is shining on
the
solar industry in Texas. Or
at
least that's the message from the
newly formed
Texas Solar Power Association, which made its
formal
debut this week. Charlie Hemmeline,
the
association's executive director, said solar energy is poised
to
build on recent momentum in
the
state.
A state-owned gas pipeline exploded and burst into flames Friday, killing at least 14 people, destroying
homes and forcing the evacuation of neighboring villages in the southern Indian state of Andhra
Pradesh, authorities said.
The
Department of
Energy
&
Climate Change's contracts with five offshore
wind
farms, two coal-to
biomass plants and a biomass heat and
power
plant may be needlessly generous
to
developers,
according
to
a
report today from
the NAO, which scrutinizes
state
spending on behalf of Parliament.
Analysts say the Chinese Machinery Engineering Corporation's (CMEC) struggle
to
repatriate roughly
1,300 employees highlights China's growing need
to
shift investment and energy deals away from
politically volatile
countries. In
the
past,
national
enterprises in
the
developing
world
have served
as
a
major source of income
for
the People's Republic. But after the
tumult
of the Arab Spring, the costs
have
sometimes
outweighed the benefits.
German lawmakers should back
the government's
revised EEG clean-energy law
when
they vote on
the
bill in parliament
today
because
current
subsidies are excessive, according
to
Economy
Minister
Sigmar Gabriel.
Germany is headed for its biggest electricity glut since 2011 as new coal-fired plants start and
generation
of
wind
and solar energy increases,
weighing
on
power
prices
that
have already
dropped
for
three years.
Climate news:
We're not going
to
be able
to
burn it all. With those 10 words, Barack Obama
uttered
one of the most
stunning, far-reaching statements ever made by a
U S
president. He also completely contradicted his
own energy policy. Yet no one seemed
to
notice.
Natural gas fields globally may be leaking enough
methane,
a potent greenhouse gas,
to
make the
fuel
as polluting as coal for the climate
over
the next few decades, according to a pair of studies published
last week.
Several western lawmakers remain optimistic they can change the way the federal government pays for
fighting wildfires even as the number of legislative days left before the midterm elections dwindles. I'm
pulling out all the stops on it. We've spent a decent chunk of time on
it
this past week, Sen.
Ron
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Wyden, D-Ore., said Tuesday.
NASA has released
some
encouraging images showing a marked decline in air pollution over much of
the
eastern
U.S., including Washington,
D.C.
and
the
1-95 corridor since 2005. The images show
the
change
in concentration of nitrogen dioxide, a
pollutant
linked to adverse effects
on
the
respiratory
system.
There's
a
strong
chance an l Nino weather event will reappear before the end of the
year and shake up
climate patterns worldwide, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday. The El Nino, a flow of unusually
warm
surface
waters from the Pacific Ocean toward
and
along the western
coast
of
South
America,
changes
rain
and
temperature patterns around
the
world
and
usually raises global temperatures.
Here
are
five charts and maps from
the
technical report
that
didn't quite grab headlines, but certainly
spotlight the myriad ways climate change will be a
drag
on
the
nation's economy. Each
one
of them
examines
the
impacts of climate change under a high emissions scenario.
At the first of three public hearings
on
the proposed
changes
Wednesday night, representatives of some
of the state's leading
environmental groups
said the new rules - the first
changes
to coastal
development policy since the
devastating
October
2012
storm - miss a golden opportunity
to
better
protect the coast.
Deep in coal country, the candidates waging
one
of
the
nation's most closely watched House races
are
competing to show who is
the
most outraged by President Barack Obama's environmental policies.
The Senate is engaged in a fruitless battle over a pair of ill-fated energy bills. Again. Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky.) is calling
on
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to hold a vote
on
a bill
that would force approval of the controversial Keystone
XL
pipeline.
Canada should establish a price for
carbon
emissions to show it's
addressing
climate change
and to
give
President
Barack
Obama
political cover
to
approve TransCanada Corp. (TRP)'s 5.4 billion project,
Trudeau,
leader of Canada's
Liberal Party said
yesterday
in an interview in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
He
said he was agnostic
about
how the price should be set.
o it
turns
out, hope
is
important. Did we
know that
already? We
sort of
knew
that
already. But -
according to a new study put
together
by Yale's Climate Change Communication Project - hope is
particularly critical as a motivator in the very doom-heavy world of climate change activism.
In
Colorado, home
to
some of the
most destructive
floods
and
wildfires of recent years, Republican
climate change
deniers
had a big night at the polls as GOP primary
voters selected nominees
for
governor,
the U.S.
House,
and
a
host
of other offices.
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Europe could coax utilities
to
shift from burning coal
to
cleaner natural gas by quadrupling the price
that
financial markets place on carbon
dioxide
emissions, the head of Spain's biggest
power
generator said.
It starts with Al Gore. When it comes time
to
teach his high school sophomores about global warming,
Wyoming science teacher Jim Stith shows An Inconvenient Truth. The green documentary delivers an
unambiguous
message: Human activity is driving dangerous
climate
change.
A
dramatic night
of
storms
in Toronto on
Wednesday
flooded
subway
stations, turned a
major freeway
into a river and knocked
out power to thousands of
people. On Wednesday,
Environment
Canada issued
a special
weather
warning for heavy rain in
Toronto Wednesday
evening. Some parts of the city received
nearly three inches of rain in just three hours.
Norway s
commitment
of
1 billion in 2010
is
just the
beginning
of
what
is
needed in Indonesia, ranked
as the world s third-largest emitter because of its shrinking forests, said Heru Prasetyo, head of the
agency for Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD .
Environment Health news:
You probably
don t
want
to
dip
your
toes in these dirty waters. According
to the
24th annual report
released by the Natural Resources Defense Council,
one
in 10 U.S. beaches are dangerously polluted -
so
polluted, in fact,
that
they have been deemed unsafe for swimmers.
Levels of particulate matter spike at night inside homes
near
gas wells in Southwest Pennsylvania, the
director of an environmental health
monitoring
project said Wednesday.
The UN responded
after
a
coalition
of activist groups submitted a
report
to
its Human Rights Office of
the
High Commissioner last week,
detailing
water
shutoffs
and
extreme
consequences
for
families in
the
city who can t
afford to
pay
their
bills and have had
to
go
without water.
The final plan and accompanying
environmental
impact
statement
for
the
627 million,
44-project
Phase Ill BP oil spill early restoration plan
were
made available
to
the public on federal and state
websites
Wednesday
(June 25).
A plan by Gov.
Andrew
M. Cuomo and the agency building a new Tappan Zee Bridge to borrow a half
billion dollars provided under the federal Clean
Water
Act has come under fire from nine environmental
and transportation
groups
that argue the money would be
improperly spent
on basic construction, not
enhancing water quality.
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The by-catch problem in the U S isn't just hurting
our
oceans,
but our
pockets too, according
to
a
new
report
by Oceana. The environmental group
estimates
the U S fishing indust ry loses
at
least 1 billion
annually from the staggering amount of seafood that is unintentionally caught (and then discarded) by
fishermen.
On a beautiful
summer afternoon
recently, a handful
of people
across America decided
it was
high
time
to
make
their
feelings known about the
Obama
administration s
most
significant
response yet to
climate
change
-
the
EPA's Clean Power Plan. Here is
what they wrote.
Among more
than
2,500 doctors consulted for the survey, nearly all of them
reported
counseling
patients on factors such as diet, exercise and cigarette smoking. However, only about 20
percent
said
they
addressed environmental exposures. They pegged
their
hesitation to a
number
of factors, from the
fear of
overwhelming
patients
with anxiety-inducing worries
to
limited
appointment time
to
a lack
of
environmental health education.
Residents worried
about
the
spate of earthquakes
that have plagued
parts of
Oklahoma likely
got
little
satisfaction Thursday night
at
a
town
hall on
the
subject, as
experts
said
there is
no way
to
know
their
cause.
Scientists say the aquarium fishery off the
Big
Island
is among
the
best managed
in the world,
but
it has
nevertheless
become
the focus
of
a fight over whether it's ever
appropriate
to remove fish from reefs
for
people
to
look
at
and
enjoy.
The
memorandum
will
spur the
creation, within the next
180
days,
of
a National Pollinator Health
Strategy
that will
lay
out
ways for
the
U S
to better study and better
tackle
the problems
facing
pollinators,
both
wild
and managed.
While
the
plight
of bees
has
gotten deserved attention of
late,
many
species
of
pollinators face
the same threats: habitat
destruction, climate-induced
changes in
flowering
and weather patterns, and in some
cases, pesticides.
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