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4.15.14
Sustainable Energy Environment
Coalition
Top news stories:
Environmental Protection Agency EPA) chief Gina McCarthy
is
traveling
to
Taiwan and Vietnam this
week
for
events related
to
environmental education and international cooperation on environmental
issues.
China said on Tuesday it had lodged a
protest
with the United States over a visit by Washington s
environmental protection chief to
self-ruled Taiwan
this
week.
Natural gas drilling
at
some sites in
southwestern
Pennsylvania released
100 to 1,000 times
the amount
of methane as
the Environmental Protection Agency EPA) has estimated for such operations, according
to
a new study.
The League of Conservation Voters and the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund announced
Monday
that they are joining forces on a
multimillion-dollar
electoral effort. The goal of the initiative,
which they re calling LeadingGreen, is
to
drive 5 million in direct campaign contributions
to
pro
environment
candidates in
2014.
A survey released Tuesday --
the
first comprehensive one
of
its kind - says
that
only
10
killers of
908
environmental
activists slain around
the
world over the past decade have been convicted. The report
by
the
London-based Global Witness, a
group that
seeks
to
shed light on
the
links between
environmental
exploitation and human rights abuses, says murders of those
protecting
land rights and
the
environment
have soared dramatically. It noted
that
its toll
of
victims in
5
countries
is
probably
far
higher since field
investigations in a number of African and Asian nations are difficult or impossible.
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Signs have been detected
that
a periodic
warming of
the tropical Pacific known
as El
Nino is
imminent,
presaging changes
to
global weather patterns in the
months
ahead,
the World
Meteorological
Organization said.
Energy news:
Wind
farms
are
more
popular in Britain
than
hydraulic
fracturing,
a
new
study shows. According to the
You Gov poll, 62
percent of
respondents said
they would rather
live
next
to
a
wind farm than
a fracking
site. Nineteen percent said they would
prefer
an oil or gas well near their home, according
to the
poll.
There is an old
joke
in the energy business
that
advanced biofuels are
the
fuel of the future, and always
will be. A Spanish company, Abengoa Bioenergy, has bet $500 million on robbing
that
joke of its punch
line. In the middle of a cornfield here
it
is building a 38-acre Erector set of electrical cable and pipe
that
will
soon begin producing cellulosic ethanol, which it calls a low-polluting alternative
to
petroleum
products.
A
Government Accountability
Office (GAO)
report
released Monday said
when the
Environmental
Protection Agency's EPA)
is
late in issuing its annual Renewable Fuel Standards
RFS) it
increases costs
for
refiners.
Some
prototypes
look like parachutes. Others, like one developed by
the
Google-owned startup Makani
Power, look more like gliders. Another, called a
buoyant
airborne
turbine,
or
the
BAT, resembles a
blimp,
but
it's hollow,
with
a spinning
turbine
suspended in its
center.While renewable
energy
developers dream of harnessing the stronger,
more
consistent breezes that blow thousands of feet
above our heads, it's hard
to
say when airborne wind energy technology will become commercially
viable.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) released a new
minute-long
ad
that
touts
her
work defending Louisiana's oil
industry
using
her
own words. The ad shows news clips playing in Louisiana homes
of
Landrieu talking
about her
record on oil and gas and hammering the Obama administration, and calls
her
chairmanship
of
the Energy
Committee the most
powerful position in the Senate for Louisiana.
Energy giant ConocoPhillips Co. has received approval from the
Department
of Energy
to
resume
exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Kenai, Alaska, facility, and plans
to
start exporting this
spring.
It turns
out
this
would
also be much easier
for
utilities
to
manage.
If
grids
were
in chunks of 500-700
connections,
they
would be big enough
to
stabilize local
fluctuations
in power generation,
but
small
enough
to
avoid large-scale failures, according
to
research by
the
American
Institute of
Physics.
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Governments are funding research
to
find cost effective and efficient ways
to
recycle rare earth metals
from used products. For instance, the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Innovation Hub is looking for
ways
to
secure the supply of five rare earth metals identified by the government
as
critical, reported
Ensia.
Prime
Minister
Shinzo Abe is pushing Japan s coal industry
to
expand sales at home and abroad,
undermining hopes
among environmentalists
that
he'd
use the Fukushima nuclear accident to switch
the
nation
to renewables.
The story of German power giant RWE AG (RWE) exemplifies the crisis facing the nation's utility industry -
and those of many count ries across Europe -- as nuclear power plants get shuttered in the wake of the
Fukushima disaster, renewables steal away revenue, and consumers and companies complain about
rising power costs
that
are three times higher
than
in the U.S.
Climate news:
March
2014 was
the fourth-warmest March
on record globally, according to
recently
released NASA
data, making
it
the 349th month -
more than
29 years - in which global temperatures were above the
historic average.
The United States needs
to
enact a major climate change law, such
as
a tax on carbon pollution, by the
end
of
this
decade
to
stave
off
the
most
catastrophic impacts
of
global
warming,
according
to
the
authors of a
report
released this week by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.
An evangelical Christian, married
to
a pastor, living in conservative West Texas, and widely regarded as a
top-notch
climate scientist, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is a rare breed
on paper
- in person, she s even rarer.
Deftly moving between topics like science, religion, and gender with equal parts insight and levity,
Hayhoe is an unassuming force
of
nature.
Rep. Ted Yoho
R-FL)
readily
admits
he s
not
smart enough
to
determine
the
roots
of
climate
change.
He is, however, able
to
rule
out
one possible cause: humans.
Corn is the most common grain in the U.S., with its production historically concentrated in a Midwestern
region stretching
from
the Ohio River valley to Nebraska and trailing off in northern
Minnesota.
It had
been ungrowable in the
fertile
farmland
of
Canada s breadbasket.
That is
changing
as
a
warming
climate, along with
the
development of faster-maturing seed varieties, turns the table on food
cultivation.
The Corn Belt
is
being pushed north
of
what was imaginable a generation ago.
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Last night's episode of Fox's Cosmos series didn't seem political or
controversial, at
least on
the
surface.
Rather, it introduced us
to
the world on
the
molecular and atomic scale,
at
one point venturing inside of
a dewdrop (packed with ext remely cool tiny organisms like tardigrades) and, later, inside of a plant cell.
It
was
kind of reminiscent of what you learned in
your
ninth
grade bio class - albeit much less sleep
inducing.
Canada's
energy industry has
officially
surpassed transportation as
the
largest producer
of
climate
change
causing greenhouse
gases,
in
no
small
part because of
large
increases
in tar
sands extraction,
according
to a
government report
quietly released Friday.
Environment Health news:
A federal
appeals
court on M onday struck
down
a
top component
of
the
Dodd-Frank Act
requiring
companies
to
disclose
whether
their
products
contain minerals from the war-torn Democratic Republic
of Congo DRC).
Throughout
the last two centuries, cities
across
the globe -
as
you
might
view
them from space
- have
expanded
in a relatively uniform way: first incrementally, then
at
a breakneck
speed.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) weighed
in
Monday against a Nevada rancher who
is
battling the federal government.
Well, it's
not
over,
Reid
told
KRNV,
a Reno, Nev.-based television
station. We can't have an American people that
violate
the law
and
then just walk away from it. So it's
not
over.
The Central Valley was once
one
of North
America's
most productive wildlife habitats, a 450-mile-long
expanse marbled with meandering streams
and
lush wetlands that provided an ideal stop for migratory
shorebirds on their annual journeys from South America
and
Mexico
to
the Arctic
and
back.
To the
untrained
eye, Manatee Springs
is
an idyllic refuge in Central Florida: The cool water
is
so clear in
parts
that the
sand
glistens like polished
aluminum.
A
vast series
of underwater
caves
beckons
thousands of divers. Deer wander by
as
do
manatees,
turtles, owls. Eagles
soar overhead.
Palm oil production in
Southeast
Asia, the
largest
growing region,
is
at increasing risk
from
the
probable
onset
of an
El Nino later
this
year
after
estates
were
already
hurt
by dryness in the first
quarter.
Prices
advanced.
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The group
that
conducts Japan s whaling says it expects
to
resume scientific whaling n the ntarctic
after this year s hunt was cancelled following an order by an
international
court.
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