Corps Approved Dakota Pipeline Over Objections of 3 Federal Agencies
"Sioux tribe's concerns were echoed in official reports by the EPA and two other agencies, but Army Corps of Engineers brushed them aside."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/31/2016
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"Have We Detected an Alien Signal? It's Highly Doubtful"
"A blip of energy picked up by a Russian radio telescope might have been nothing more than a satellite passing overhead — or even a software glitch".
Source: Scientific American, 08/31/2016
"Colorado Anti-Fracking Activists Fall Short in Ballot Efforts"
"Two anti-fracking initiatives did not get enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot, Colorado officials announced on Monday, giving the oil and gas industry its latest victory over communities seeking to exert local control over fracking."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/30/2016
"Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill Banning State Funds For Coal Projects"
"SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown took a strong stand against coal on Friday, approving an East Bay lawmaker's bill to ban state funding for coal-related projects."
Source: San Jose Mercury News, 08/30/2016
"Far-Reaching Tribal Solidarity Displayed At Pipeline Protest"
"Native Americans from reservations hundreds of miles away from North Dakota have joined the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s growing protest against a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline that they say could disturb sacred sites and impact drinking water for 8,000 tribal members and millions further downstream."
Source: AP, 08/30/2016
"Iowa Utilities Board Approves Huge Wind Energy Project"
"The Iowa Utilities Board has approved a wind turbine operation it says will be the nation's largest wind energy project."
Source: AP, 08/29/2016
"Coal Country Is Wary of Hillary Clinton’s Pledge to Help"
"As Kevin Widener was growing up on his family’s tobacco farm in the rolling hills of southwest Virginia in the 1990s, lawmakers and lawyers in Washington were waging a war on smoking."
Source: NY Times, 08/29/2016
Environmentalists Sue Interior Over Oil, Gas Leasing on Federal Lands
"Environmental groups launched a broad assault today on federal oil and gas leasing, accusing the Obama administration of ignoring the climate impacts from leasing on hundreds of thousands of acres since early 2015."
Source: Greenwire, 08/26/2016
"VW to Pay $1.2 Billion to U.S. Dealers Hurt by Diesel Scandal"
The emissions cheating scandal badly damaged the businesses of many U.S. Volkswagen dealerships. Now VW has agreed to pay them some $1.2 billion.
Source: NY Times, 08/26/2016
"Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is In Danger"
"Greenland is melting — and has been for quite some time."
Source: Wash Post, 08/26/2016
