"Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story"
"The president has said the right things about climate change – and has taken some positive steps. But we're drilling for more oil and digging up more carbon than ever."
Source: Rolling Stone, 12/19/2013
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"Climate Change: the Warmest November Worldwide Since 1880"
"How hot was November? NOAA says average global temperature, for water and land surfaces combined, was 56.6 degrees F (13.7 Celsius). It was the 37th consecutive November with above-average temperatures."
Source: AP, 12/19/2013
"Oil Trains Raise Concerns in Small Towns, Cities"
"WOLF POINT, Mont. -- It's tough to miss the trains hauling crude oil out of the Northern Plains. They are growing more frequent by the day, mile-long processions of black tank cars that rumble through wheat fields and towns, along rivers and national parks."
Source: AP, 12/19/2013
"Study Links BP Oil Spill To Dolphin Deaths"
"US government scientists have for the first time found direct evidence of toxic exposure in the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: Guardian, 12/19/2013
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Database: Fracking Yields Gushers of Cash to Congress Power Brokers
A study issued by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) using campaign contribution data found the fracking industry gave increasingly more in districts hosting fracking than in nonfracking districts between 2004 and 2012.
J-Groups Challenge Utah Ag-Gag Law on First Amendment Grounds
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 16 other journalism organizations, including the publishers of two major Utah newspapers, filed a friend-of-the-court brief December 10, 2013, arguing that Utah's ag-gag law infringes on constitutionally protected newsgathering rights.
White House Secrecy Helps Politics Subvert Environmental Health at OMB
It's true. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) helps well-heeled industry lobbyists thwart rules to protect public safety and health. Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin proves it with documents and insider interviews showing how election politics trumped open government, regulatory law, and public health in the run-up to the 2012 election.
Spying on Environmental Journos No Longer Just Paranoid Fantasy
Industry groups and government agencies are outsourcing the job of spying confidentially on environmental journalists to firms that hire former NSA, CIA, and FBI investigators. You are not supposed to know this. For example, Wikileaks recently released documentation on for-hire intelligence agency Stratfor's spying on award-winning ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten.
Opinion: "Danger And Delay on Dirty Bombs"
"When highly radioactive material that can be used in a 'dirty bomb' is moved to or from a hospital in New York City, it is done in the dead of night on cordoned streets with high security."
Source: Reuters, 12/18/2013
