EarthFix Snippets
After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift
Interesting look at the ‘water footprint’ (vs ‘carbon footprint’) of energy projects.
The water footprint could become as important as the carbon footprint in years to come.
Backers and critics of coal-fired power are waiting to see how tough the Obama administration gets on hundreds of plants as part of his pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions. (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press / December 2, 2012)
- Which Fish Get To Recolonize After Elwha’s Dams Are Gone?
- Elwha River: Recovery Proceeds Despite Sediment Setbacks
- Anti-Logging Protesters: ‘We Are Not Terrorists’
- Coal Company Drops Plans For Export Terminal On Columbia
- No New Wind Farm Construction In PNW This Year
- Why It’s Getting Harder To Deal With Droughts And Floods
- What A Golf Course Could Mean For Washington’s Groundwater
- Klamath Basin Warned Drought Could Trigger Irrigation Shutoffs
- Ore. Bill Requires Wave Energy Companies To Remove Equipment
- More Trapping Of Sea Lions Feeding On Columbia Chinook
Infographic from Sunlight Foundation shows the campaign spending from fossil fuel industry juxtaposed against climate policy and CO2 concentrations.
Policy stalls as campaign spending by fossil fuel industries and greenhouse gases rise to historic levels.
More: http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/whats-wrong-picture-greenhouse-gas-all-time-high/
Front of three-page advertorial insert to Globe and Mail’s May 1 B.C. section. Stories were outsourced by Globe and provided free of charge to Coal Association, Elections BC was told. The paper has since gotten a bunch of flack over the pro-coal advertorial.
Safety issues make plans to clean up a mess left over from the construction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal uncertain
- What A Golf Course Could Mean For Washington’s Groundwater
- Ore. Bill Requires Wave Energy Companies To Remove Equipment
- Report: Feds Planning To Drop Wolves’ Legal Protections
- Ending Year-End Checks For Green Energy Surpluses
- Washington State Pressed To Save Honey Bees By Restricting Pesticides
- Talking Columbia River Treaty
- Court Tosses Agreement Over Rare Forest Species
- Why It’s Getting Harder To Deal With Droughts And Floods
- Northwest Growers Worry About Antibiotic Ban
- Carbon Controversy: Should The Northwest Grow Markets For Forest Biofuels?
