"What’s Next for the Chevy Volt?"
GM is saying that despite its bankruptcy the plug-in hybrid Volt still has the greenlight for a 2010 launch. But does it?
Source: Reuters, 06/02/2009
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"Flood of Anger"
A proposed dam on the Similkameen River close to the border between Washington and British Columbia raises thorny trans-border water issues.
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 06/01/2009
"Judge Orders New Plan for Dam Releases into Grand Canyon"
"Federal officials must reconsider the irregular water releases from Glen Canyon Dam, which may harm the humpback chub, an endangered fish."
Source: LA Times, 06/01/2009
"Obama Walks a Fine Line Over Mining"
"Environmentalists feel betrayed by the EPA's decision not to block new mountaintop mining projects."
Source: LA Times, 06/01/2009
"Climate Talks To Begin Grappling With Treaty Text"
"Delegates from 174 countries and 230 nongovernment interest groups meet from Monday through June 12 in Bonn, Germany, in the second of five negotiating conferences to culminate with a final agreement being adopted in December in Copenhagen, Denmark."
Source: AP, 06/01/2009
"Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues"
Refugees from lands made uninhabitable by climate change -- expected in tens of millions -- may soon be threatening peace and security in many parts of the world. The UN is expected soon to address this issue.
Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2009
"Warming and Death"
"There are significant questions about the robustness of the numbers at the heart of the new report estimating more than 300,000 deaths are already being caused each year by global warming...."
Source: Dot Earth, 06/01/2009
"Toxic Mud, Heading to Texas, Stirs Town"
The toxic, PCB-laced sediment now being dredged from the Hudson River has to go somewhere -- a landfill in Texas.
Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2009
Camp Lejeune Vets Suffer from Water
"Camp Lejeune, a sprawling Marine base on the North Carolina seaboard, is the site of what some scientists call the worst public drinking-water contamination in the nation's history."
Source: St. Petersburg Times, 06/01/2009
"Groups Ask EPA to Ban Lead Tire Weights"
"The federal government should ban the use of lead weights, those fingertip-size chunks of metal that balance the tires of cars and trucks, says a petition filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 06/01/2009
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