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California debuts landmark cap-and-trade system
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 14th, 2012
Associated Press: CALIFORNIA PERMITTING: California has begun auctioning permits for greenhouse gas emissions, launching what is expected to be the world's second-largest carbon market.
CENTRAL PIECE: The plan is a central piece of the state's 2006 global warming law, a suite of regulations meant to dramatically reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases. Businesses must either cut emissions to cap levels or buy allowances from other companies for each extra ton of pollution discharged annually.
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Ground Water Inundation
Posted by Environmental News Network: Andy Soos on November 14th, 2012
Environmental News Network: Scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) published a study today in Nature Climate Change showing that besides marine inundation (flooding), low-lying coastal areas may also be vulnerable to groundwater inundation, a factor largely unrecognized in earlier predictions on the effects of sea level rise. Ground-water flooding or inundation occurs in low-lying areas when the water table rises above the land surface. Previous research has predicted that by the end of the century, sea level...
Climate change could force grazing cuts in West
Posted by Associated Press: Jeff DeLONG on November 14th, 2012
Associated Press: Significant reductions in grazing on public land - in some places outright elimination of the activity - is justified because of the impacts of a warming climate, scientists say in a new report.
A large decrease in the amount of grazing allowed on public land managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service could help offset stress on rangeland in Nevada and across the West that is being worsened by climate change, scientists said in a report released Wednesday.
While...
Top 5 Reasons Why Obama Should Reject the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
Posted by EcoWatch: Bold Nebraska on November 14th, 2012
EcoWatch: As the President kicks off his second term, there has been much chatter about town as to whether or not he will approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Mitt Romney made it clear that he would approve the pipeline on his first day in office--and even went so far as to say he would build it himself if he had too--while the President has emphasized the importance of climate change and renewable energy.
In an interview with AARP, the President noted that doubling fuel efficiency standards on cars...
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Comments Off on Top 5 Reasons Why Obama Should Reject the Keystone XL Tar Sands PipelineThe DIY approach to Tracking Fracking
Posted by New York Times: Andrew C. Revkin on November 14th, 2012
New York Times: Given that government resources for environmental regulation (and just about everything else) will be constrained for a long time to come, I`ve been enthusiastic about efforts by the public to take a D.I.Y. (do it yourself) role in tracking pollution or resource issues, whether on the ground or online.
That`s why I loved learning last year how Jamie Serra, a 26-year-old employee of the state legislature in Pennsylvania, created the useful Web site Fracktrack.org as a way to organize masses of...
Climate change: drought benchmark is flawed – study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 14th, 2012
Agence France-Presse: A scientific method used in a landmark UN report that said warming was intensifying global drought is badly flawed, a study published on Wednesday said.
Contrary to what the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested in 2007, there is little evidence that global droughts have become longer or more extreme in recent decades, it said.
But, it cautioned, some regions have experienced more droughts and others less so.
Published in the journal Nature, the study takes aim...
Ecological Internet: Back to Our Roots
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on November 14th, 2012
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Conservation Groups Appeal Oil and Gas Ruling Affecting Allegheny National Forest
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 14th, 2012
EcoWatch: The Allegheny Defense Project and Sierra Club have filed a notice that they are appealing a lower court decision regarding oil and gas drilling in the Allegheny National Forest to the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In September, U.S. District Judge Sean McLaughlin sided with the oil and gas industry in holding that the U.S. Forest Service has limited authority to regulate oil and gas drilling in the Allegheny National Forest because 93 percent of the mineral rights are privately owned. The...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Conservation Groups Appeal Oil and Gas Ruling Affecting Allegheny National ForestFracking Industry Aims to Export Natural Gas While Touting False Claims of Energy Security
Posted by EcoWatch: Food and Water Watch on November 14th, 2012
EcoWatch: A new report released today by the national consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch takes aim at the oil and gas industry’s claim that fracking and drilling for natural gas and tight oil will deliver U.S. energy security. U.S. Energy Insecurity: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas is a False Solution reveals that as of Oct. 26, the Department of Energy has received 19 proposals to export liquefied natural gas. If approved, these projects would allow the oil and gas industry to sell...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Fracking Industry Aims to Export Natural Gas While Touting False Claims of Energy SecurityFracking Voices—Pennsylvania Residents Warn New Yorkers About the Dangers of Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 14th, 2012
EcoWatch: A new radio campaign and website featuring the voices of Pennsylvania residents whose lives have been impacted by gas drilling launched today by Grassroots Environmental Education, a non-profit organization based in New York. The 60-second radio spots will debut today in Binghamton, Elmira, Endicott, Corning and Ithaca--areas of New York rich in Marcellus Shale and likely to see gas drilling if the controversial practice is approved by Governor Cuomo.
"People we met in Pennsylvania were desperate...
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