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Drought brings California gold prospectors back life
Posted by LA Times: Scott Gold on June 1st, 2014
LA Times: David Fiori, waist-deep in the chilly Kern River, braced against the current, stabbed a shovel into the ancient silt between his feet and tossed the muck downstream. His eyes, though, wandered to a potential prize - a spot on the opposite bank of the river.
To the uninitiated, it looked like just another leafy bend in the 165-mile-long Kern, which carries the snowmelt of the Sierra Nevada toward the sea. But prospectors have had a different sort of perspective in this stretch of California for...
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Virginia to review natural gas fracking rules
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 1st, 2014
Associated Press: Virginia is looking anew at regulations governing hydraulic fracking for natural gas, a drilling method that spawned a gold rush for the energy resource in the United States and given rise to its own environmental movement.
The review comes ahead of a Dallas energy company’s plans to drill in tens of thousands of leased acres south and east of Fredericksburg. To date, drilling for natural gas in Virginia occurred only in the southwest Coalfields region of the state.
The Virginia Department...
Tracking Obama’s Climate Rules for Power Plants
Posted by New York Times: Andrew C. Revkin on June 1st, 2014
New York Times: I’m heading to Beijing to participate in a week of meetings related to the unfolding international science effort called Future Earth, so I won’t be able to weigh in in a timely fashion on President Obama’s planned Monday release of regulations restricting carbon dioxide emissions from existing American power plants. You can follow coverage and commentary on this White House move in The Times here. An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in...
Australia: Autumn mild weather sets record highs
Posted by West Australian: Andrew Tillett on June 1st, 2014
West Australian: Record-breaking warm weather in autumn has propelled Australia's average temperature to its hottest two-year period recorded.
Releasing a report today, the Climate Council said the unseasonally warm conditions again highlighted the need for action on global warming.
The report said the average temperature was 1.11C higher during April, with the "warm wave" last month delaying the onset of winter across southern Australia. Council member Will Steffen said records set in WA last month included...