"Fields and Forests in Flames: Vegetation Smoke and Human Health"
The smoke from wildfires can have harmful effects on human health, especially for children, seniors, and the chronically ill.
Source: EHP, 09/02/2011
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Greening of Canadian Oil Sands: A View Across the Border
This free Environmental Law Institute teleconference will provide an overview of law and policy of Canadian oil sands extraction, as it compares to the United States resource extraction regime. RSVP by September 13th.
Regulatory Update on Wind Energy Permitting and Development
In this free Environmental Law Institute (attend in person in Washington, DC, or by teleconference) event, speakers will discuss issues in state and local siting rules, significant differences between offshore and onshore development, FAA and military radar issues, the FERC approval process, and related economic regulatory issues critical to wind power development. RSVP by September 8th.
"Insight: Arctic Has Great Riches, But Greater Challenges"
"At the rim of the Arctic Circle in Canada, gold mining firm Agnico-Eagle is learning how tough it is to operate in a remote region with temptingly large, but frustratingly inaccessible, reserves of oil, gas and minerals. Commentators rarely mention nightmarish logistics, polar bears and steel-snapping cold when they confidently predict that as the Arctic warms up, melting sea ice and shorter winters will open up the expanse to exploration."
Source: Reuters, 09/02/2011
"Tropical Storm Katia May Not Strengthen Much Friday - NHC"
"Tropical Storm Katia, which lost its Category 1 hurricane charateristics Thursday evening, is not expected to strengthen much on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest report. "
Source: Reuters, 09/02/2011
"Drought Intensifies In The South, No End In Sight"
"Record-breaking triple-digit temperatures were prolonging a devastating drought that has been baking the South and the dry spell could extend into next year and beyond, climate experts said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 09/02/2011
"China Benefits as U.S. Solar Industry Withers"
"HONG KONG — The bankruptcies of three American solar power companies in the last month, including Solyndra of California on Wednesday, have left China’s industry with a dominant sales position — almost three-fifths of the world’s production capacity — and rapidly declining costs."
Source: NY Times, 09/02/2011
"Study Suggests Higher Cancer Risk for 9/11 Firefighters"
"A new study says firefighters who toiled in the wreckage of the World Trade Center in 2001 were 19 percent more likely to develop cancer than those who were not there, the strongest evidence to date of a possible link between work at ground zero and cancer."
Source: NY Times, 09/02/2011
"East Coast Quake Rattled Nuclear Plant's Waste Casks"
"The earthquake that shook the East Coast last week rattled casks holding radioactive nuclear waste at a Virginia plant, moving them as much as 4.5 inches from their original position, the plant's operator said.
The 5.8-magnitude quake shifted 25 casks, each 16 feet tall and weighing 115 tons, on a concrete pad at Dominion Resources Inc's North Anna nuclear plant."
Roberta Rampton reports for Reuters September 1, 2011.
Source: Reuters, 09/02/2011
"US Gulf Braces for Rain From Tropical Depression"
"NEW ORLEANS -- A slow-moving tropical depression was slogging toward the U.S. Gulf coast Friday, packing walloping rains that could drench the region with up to 20 inches (50 centimeters). In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal said he was concerned about the serious threat of flash flooding in his state and he declared a state of emergency Thursday. After devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005, nothing is being taken for granted."
Source: AP, 09/02/2011
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