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"Critics Challenge Safety of New Reactor Design"

"As Southern Company and its partners, armed with federal loan guarantees of $8.3 billion, move toward construction of two new reactors at a site near Augusta, Ga., opponents are taking aim at the design details." A new engineering study funded by several anti-nuclear groups says corrosion in the reactor's containment could vent radioactivity to the atmosphere in the event of an accident. Westinghouse, the reactor's maker disputed the study.

Source: NYTimes, 04/22/2010

"Earth's Missing Heat Could Haunt Us Later: Report"

"The rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere means far more energy is coming into Earth's climate system than is going out, but half of that energy is missing and could eventually reappear as another sign of climate change, scientists said on Thursday."

Source: Reuters, 04/16/2010

"States Get Tough on Outdoor Wood Furnace Smoke"

"When oil prices climbed, more people turned to wood to heat their homes, many using outdoor wood furnaces that to some are air-polluting nuisances. From Vermont to Connecticut to Indiana, some neighbors have complained about smoke from these furnaces drifting into their yards and homes, in some cases triggering asthma attacks and lung problems."

Source: AP, 04/05/2010

Guns in Parks Bill Takes Effect

"As the controversial law takes effect Monday, critics argue it could increase wildlife poaching, violence between visitors and against rangers, and destruction of historic and cultural monuments."

Source: LA Times, 02/23/2010

"Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car"

"SAN FRANCISCO -- If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations."

Source: NYTimes, 02/16/2010

"Toxic Coal-Tar Cleanup To Cost New York $3 Billion"

Toxic coal-tar liquids from ancient gas-manufacturing plants have been creeping through the soil of the mid-Hudson Valley for more than a century. Cleanup projects may cost some $3 billion.

Source: Times Herald-Record, 02/08/2010

"Pika Does Not Get Endangered Species Protection"

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday evening that it would not grant the American pika -- a tiny mammal whose mountainside habitat is being threatened by climate change -- protection under the Endangered Species Act."

Source: Post Carbon, 02/05/2010

"US Loses Opportunity With Home Energy Efficiency"

Many U.S. homes could be made far less expensive to heat and cool -- reducing greenhouse emissions in the process.

Source: Daily Climate, 01/25/2010

"Methane Release 'Looks Stronger'"

"Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed."

Source: BBC News, 01/07/2010

"Warming's Impacts Sped Up, Worsened Since Kyoto"

"Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated -- beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before."

Source: AP, 11/23/2009

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