"BP Fund Has Paid Out $5 Billion To Gulf Spill Victims"
"BP Plc has paid out more than $5 billion to 204,434 victims of last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg said on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 08/25/2011
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"Study: Climate Shifts Cause War"
"Top military brass, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the UN Secretary General have all warned that climate change will create conflicts in the future. But environmental shifts are already causing wars, argues a team of experts in a new paper in Nature published this month."
Source: Mother Jones, 08/25/2011
"Record-Setting Agricultural Disaster in Texas Gets 'Worse by the Day"
"MILES, Texas -- After scanning the landscape surrounding this tiny (population 757) central Texas town, one immediately understands why the city's officials have decided to scratch the word 'cotton' from the annual September Cotton Festival.
Source: ClimateWire, 08/25/2011
"Nuclear Refugees Struggle To Cope With Uncertain Future"
"Like thousands of other people, Miwa Kamoshita's life was turned upside down when the March 11 tsunami struck the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, leading her and her family to voluntarily evacuate their home in Iwaki, some 40 km south of the crippled power station."
Source: Japan Times, 08/25/2011
"U.S. Inspecting Virginia Nuclear Reactor After Quake"
"Dominion Resources workers were inspecting the North Anna nuclear power plant in Mineral, Virginia on Wednesday, a day after an earthquake centered near plant knocked both reactors offline, the company said."
Source: Reuters, 08/25/2011
"U.S. Green Groups Write Obama To Oppose Oil Pipeline"
"Ten U.S. environmental groups came out in support of hundreds of protesters arrested at the White House since Saturday for opposing a proposed $7 billion pipeline that would greatly expand imports of crude extracted from Canadian oil sands."
Source: Reuters, 08/25/2011
Left, Right Agree: for Debt Cut, End Subsidies That Harm Environment
"Budget-slashers in Washington could get a jump-start toward their goal by eliminating environmentally harmful subsidies, an unusual coalition of conservative and liberal groups advised Wednesday."
Source: McClatchy, 08/25/2011
"U.S. East Coast Braces as Irene Strengthens"
"Hurricane Irene thrashed the Bahamas early Thursday, with widespread damage reported on at least two southern islands.
It was a powerful Category 3 hurricane with winds at 115 miles an hour. Forecasters said the winds will ramp up quickly over the next day and Irene was expected to become a Category 4 storm with winds at least 131 mph.
Source: Wall St. Journal, 08/25/2011
New Data Site Maps "Dirty Energy Money"
Oil Change International invites you to look up campaign donations from energy companies to members of Congress with data sourced from the Center for Responsive Politics and the Federal Elections Commission.
EPA Begins Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
The system, proposed during the first months of the Obama administration, was delayed when it faced heavy opposition from industry groups and Republicans. In response, EPA reduced the number of businesses that need to report their emissions.
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