"USDA Unveils New Green, Bio-Based Product Label"
"Eco-minded shoppers will soon see a new U.S.-approved label on many products, including household cleaners and skin-care items, made with bio-based ingredients."
Source: USA TODAY, 01/20/2011
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"World's First EV Racing Circuit Green Flagged for Summer 2011"
"The EV Cup -- the world's first circuit race series for zero-emission electric vehicles -- will hold its inaugural season of seven races this summer and fall."
Source: ENS, 01/20/2011
"MSHA Outlines Key Problems That Led to Mine Disaster"
Federal investigators Wednesday outlined allegations of safety violations as the likely factors that combined to produce the huge explosion that killed 29 miners on April 5 at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine.
Source: Charleston Gazette, 01/20/2011
"Arch Coal Finds a Passage to Asia"
Arch Coal's announcement of a second West Coast shipping terminal signals a trend toward increasing exports of strip-mined western coal to Asian nations like China, where demand outstrips supply. The implications for greenhouse emissions and accounting schemes for controlling them are huge.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 01/20/2011
"BP Chief Sees No US Problem With Russia Deal"
A BP deal with the biggest Russian oil company to develop Arctic Oil could have huge geopolitical and environmental repercussions.
Source: AP, 01/19/2011
"Thaw of Earth's Icy Sunshade May Stoke Warming"
"Shrinking ice and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reflecting ever less sunshine back into space in a previously underestimated mechanism that could add to global warming, a study showed."
Source: Reuters, 01/18/2011
"Safety System Dysfunctional Before Mine Blast"
"Legally required water systems at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia were not functioning properly before the April 5 explosion that killed 29 mineworkers, according to multiple sources familiar with the disaster investigation."
Source: NPR, 01/17/2011
"Solar Panel Maker Moves Work to China"
Evergreen Solar, which prospered from at least $43 million in aid from the state of Massachusetts, has decided to lay off 800 Massachusetts workers and move to China.
Source: NY Times, 01/17/2011
"Opponents to Fracking Disclosure Take Big Money From Industry"
Members of Congress inclined not to regulate hydraulic fracturing for natural gas are getting about 19 times as much money from the gas industry as those who want to disclose the toxic chemicals in the fracturing fluid companies are pumping into the ground near people's drinking water supplies.
Source: ProPublica, 01/17/2011
EPA Vetoes Permit for Arch Coal's Spruce No 1 Mountaintop Removal Mine
"Federal regulators on Thursday vetoed Arch Coal Inc.'s proposal for the largest mountaintop removal permit in West Virginia history, saying the company had refused to adopt alternative mining plans that would do less environmental damage."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 01/14/2011
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