Report Predicts Hotter Southeast
Middle Georgia summers are going to get hotter, according to a new report on global warming.
Source: Macon Telegraph, 07/15/2009
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Survivors of Attacks Fight to Save Sharks
Survivors of shark attacks are in Washington lobbying for new fishing restrictions to protect sharks.
Source: Wash Post, 07/15/2009
"Exxon to Invest Millions to Make Fuel From Algae"
"The oil giant Exxon Mobil, whose chief executive once mocked alternative energy by referring to ethanol as “moonshine,” is about to venture into biofuels."
Source: NYTimes, 07/15/2009
"NOAA Bans Commercial Harvesting Of Krill"
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published a final rule in the Federal Register prohibiting the harvesting of krill in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington."
Source: SPX, 07/15/2009
"White House Begins Rewriting Army Corps' Project Guidelines"
"The White House is rewriting standards for federal water projects, widening 26-year-old rules that guide the Army Corps of Engineers in an effort to consider environmental and social goals as well as economic ones."
Source: Greenwire, 07/15/2009
El Nino Augurs Mild Hurricane Season
"This year's Atlantic hurricane season could be less severe than usual due to start of another El Nino period in June."
Source: ENS, 07/15/2009
Climate May Spawn 2010 Political War
Southern Virginia Democrat Rep. Tom Perriello voted for the House climate bill. Now both parties are waging a political war over his seat that may push the climate issue front and center in 2010 elections nationwide.
Source: ClimateWire, 07/15/2009
"Fallout Continues from Peru's Killing of Amazon Oil Protesters"
After Peruvian police opened fire June 5, 2009, on indigenous Amazonian people protesting the taking of their land for oil drilling, killing at least 34, some laws have been repealed and some ministers have lost thier jobs.
Source: SolveClimate, 07/14/2009
"Administration Seeks to Restrict Antibiotics in Livestock"
"The Obama administration announced Monday that it would seek to ban many routine uses of antibiotics in farm animals in hopes of reducing the spread of dangerous bacteria in humans."
Source: NYTimes, 07/14/2009
"Debate on Clean Energy Leads to Regional Divide"
The debate over the giant climate-change and energy bill now before Congress has set off a fight between Eastern and Midwestern politicians over transmission lines and solar and wind energy. Many of the best wind sites are in the Midwest, far from the electric load in populous East Coast cities.
Source: NYTimes, 07/14/2009
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