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Nestle CEO: Water is Not a Human Right

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:27:00 +0000

Nestle CEO: Water is Not a Human Right
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/nestle-ceo-water-is-not-a-human-right/

Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet
belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor who
cannot afford to pay these said corporations suffer from starvation due to their
lack of financial wealth? According to the former CEO and now Chairman [...]

U.S. Tax Money Helping Monsanto Sell Overseas

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:26:00 +0000

U.S. Tax Money Helping Monsanto Sell Overseas
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/u-s-tax-money-helping-monsanto-sell-overseas/

Nearly two decades after their mid-'90s debut in US farm fields, GMO seeds are
looking less and less promising.

Do the industry's products ramp up crop yields? The Union of Concerned
Scientists looked at that question in detail for a 2009 study. Short answer:
marginally, if at all. Do they lead to reduced pesticide use? No; [...]

How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:56:00 +0000

How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods

Sources report that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach amendments to the Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on GE foods. Reliable sources in Washington D.C. have informed the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach one or more “Monsanto Riders” or am

8K by Ronnie Cummins, AlterN... / 1d http://www.alternet.org/food/how-

In Post-Tsunami Japan, A Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:26:00 +0000

In Post-Tsunami Japan, A Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete

In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, the Japanese government is forgoing an opportunity to sustainably protect its coastline and is instead building towering concrete seawalls and other defenses that environmentalists say will inflict serious damage on coastal ecosystems. BY WINIFRED BIRD

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Five Things That Are Needed In New Fracking Rules

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:25:00 +0000

Five Things That Are Needed In New Fracking Rules

The Department of the Interior is about to propose a revised version of rules to govern the practice of hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells on federal lands. The department’s Bureau of Land Management oversees drilling on 700 million acres of land, including almost 60 million acres of private land where the agency owns the mineral rights. It has been a year since the BLM took its first stab

4 by Tom Kenworthy, Guest B... / 1d http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/16/2023621/five-things-that-are-needed-in-new-fracking-rules/?mobile=nc&utm_source=feedly

May 16 News: Fish Are Fleeing Climate-Warmed Waters And Heading For The Earth’s Poles

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:24:00 +0000

May 16 News: Fish Are Fleeing Climate-Warmed Waters And Heading For The Earth’s Poles

(Credit: TANAKA Juuyoh/Flickr) For more than 30 years, ocean fish and mammals have migrated away from warming equatorial waters and toward the poles, providing more evidence climate change has already had broad global consequences. [Washington Post] Fish and other sea life have been heading toward the Earth’s poles for more than three decades, a mass migration to cooler waters that provides more e

15 by Ryan Koronowski / 1d http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/16/2020311/may-16-news-fish-are-fleeing-climate-warmed-waters-and-heading-for-the-earths-poles/?mobile=nc&utm_source=feedly

Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA From Regulating CO2

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:23:00 +0000

Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA From Regulating CO2

(Credit: Philippe Lissac / GODONG) Conservative states, business groups, fossil fuel companies, and politicians who deny the science of climate change are petitioning the Supreme Court to reverse Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on greenhouse gases and to weaken the Clean Air Act. This would involve the Court either limiting or reversing its own 2007 decision, Massachusetts v. EP

14 by Ryan Koronowski / 1d http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/16/2016631/epa-is-required-to-regulate-carbon-pollution-from-existing-power-plants/?mobile=nc&utm_source=feedly

U.S. Geological Survey: Warmer Springs Causing Loss Of Snow Cover Throughout The Rocky Mountains

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:22:00 +0000

U.S. Geological Survey: Warmer Springs Causing Loss Of Snow Cover Throughout The Rocky Mountains

A new U.S. Geological Survey study finds, “Warmer spring temperatures since 1980 are causing an estimated 20 percent loss of snow cover across the Rocky Mountains of western North America.” The USGS explains, “The new study builds upon a previous USGS snowpack investigation which showed that, until the 1980s, the northern Rocky Mountains experienced large snowpacks when the central and southern Ro

8 by Joe Romm / 1d http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/16/2008091/us-geological-survey-warmer-springs-causing-loss-of-snow-cover-throughout-the-rocky-mountains/?mobile=nc&utm_source=feedly

EPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution From Existing Power Plants

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:21:00 +0000

EPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution From Existing Power Plants

EPA is legally obligated to issue rules regulating CO2 from existing power plants. Dave Roberts at Grist is (eternally) puzzled that folks don’t seem to know that. Since eternity is a very long time — only slightly longer than the lifetime of some CO2 molecules in the air — I’ll repost his key points: In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Mass v. EPA that CO2 qualifies as a pollutant under the Clea

8 by Joe Romm / 20h http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/17/2027071/epa-required-

6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of northeast Japan

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:16:00 +0000

6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of northeast Japan

May 18, 2013 – JAPAN - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The earthquake was later upgraded by the USGS to a 6.0 magnitude. Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (9501.T) two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa n

77 by The Extinction Protoco... / 25minhttp://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/6-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-the-coast-of-northeast-japan/?utm_source=feedly

America’s first climate refugees: “It’s happening now … The village is sinking”

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:14:00 +0000

America’s first climate refugees: “It’s happening now … The village is sinking”

This story is part of a Guardian series on climate refugees. Read parts 1, 2, and 3. DCRA / Alaska Department of CommerceOnce the snow melts, people make their way around Newtok on wooden boardwalks set down on the mud. But the melting permafrost no longer provides stable ground for village buildings or the boardwalks, and people complain that it’s been years since there has been money spent on

15 by Suzanne Goldenberg / 58minhttp://grist.org/climate-energy/americas-first-climate-refugees-its-happening-now-the-village-is-sinking/?utm_source=feedly

USGS Report Released: National Assessment of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resources—Methodology Implementation

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:05:00 +0000

USGS Report Released: National Assessment of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resources—Methodology Implementation

Recently, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released a report titled National Assessment of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resources—Methodology Implementation (USGS Open-File Rep. 2013-1055). The 35-page report available here, authored by Madalyn S. Blondes et al, discusses the following:[i]n response to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted

by Taryn Rucinski / 2d http://paceeenvironmentalnotes.blogspot.com/2013/05/usgs-report-released-national.html?utm_source=feedly

Pace Environmental Law Review Volume 30, Issue 2 Released: Nanotechnology and the Environment

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:03:00 +0000

Pace Environmental Law Review Volume 30, Issue 2 Released: Nanotechnology and the Environment

Current Issue: Volume 30, Issue 2 (2013) Nanotechnology and the EnvironmentSpring 2013ArticlesEnvironmental Law Confronts the New Industrial RevolutionLeslie Carothers Searching for the Nano-needle in a Green Haystack: Researching the Environmental, Health, and Safety Ramifications of NanotechnologyTaryn L. Rucinski The Case for an Information-Forcing Regulatory Definition of “Nanomaterials”David

by Taryn Rucinski / 1d http://paceeenvironmentalnotes.blogspot.com/2013/05/pace-environmental-law-review-volume-30.html?utm_source=feedly

Fracking risks to ground water assessed

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:27:00 +0000

Fracking risks to ground water assessed

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-fracking-ground.html#nwlt

Burning Tar Sands = 'Unsolvable' Climate Crisis: Hansen

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:09:00 +0000

Burning Tar Sands = 'Unsolvable' Climate Crisis: Hansen
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/17-1

Ronnie Cummins: Genetically Modified Democracy: Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on Your Rights

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:09:00 +0000

Ronnie Cummins: Genetically Modified Democracy: Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on Your Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/17-4

NRDC Report Released: Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the U.S., 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:16:00 +0000

NRDC Report Released: Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the U.S., 2013

Recently, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international non-profit environmental advocacy and action group which focuses on the protection of wildlife and habitat, issued a report titled, Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the U.S. (2013). According to the press release for the 50-page report available here, the following is discussed,[t]he 2

by Taryn Rucinski / 2d http://paceeenvironmentalnotes.blogspot.com/2013/05/nrdc-report-released-benchmarking-air.html?utm_source=feedly

Sea level: One-third of its rise comes from melting mountain glaciers

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:07:00 +0000

Sea level: One-third of its rise comes from melting mountain glaciers
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) May 17, 2013 - How much all glaciers contribute to global sea-level rise has never been calculated before with this accuracy. An international group of researchers involving two geographers from the University of Zurich has confirmed that melting of glaciers caused about one third of the observed sea-level rise, while the ice sheets and thermal expansion of sea water account for one third each. So far, estimat ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Sea_level_One_third_of_its_rise_comes_from_melting_mountain_glaciers_999.html

H1N1 discovered in marine mammals

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:06:00 +0000

H1N1 discovered in marine mammals
Davis CA (SPX) May 17, 2013 - Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published May 15, in the journal PLOS ONE. It is the first report of that flu strain in any marine mammal. "We thought we might find influenza viruses, which have been found bef ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/H1N1_discovered_in_marine_mammals_999.html

World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:05:00 +0000

World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise
Boulder CO (SPX) May 17, 2013 - While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study led by Clark University and involving the University Colorado Boulder. The new research found that all glacial regions lost mass from 2003 to 2009, with ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Worlds_melting_glaciers_making_large_contribution_to_sea_rise_999.html

Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:04:00 +0000

Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 17, 2013 - When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects carbon storage, they had made certain assumptions. "We expected that because of the long-term warming, we would have lost carbon stored in the soil to the atmosphere," said Schimel. The gradual warmin ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Research_into_carbon_storage_in_Arctic_tundra_reveals_unexpected_insight_into_ecosystem_resiliency_999.html

Senate confirms Moniz to lead DOE in 97-0 vote

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:48:00 +0000

Senate confirms Moniz to lead DOE in 97-0 vote
Environmental group congratulates Moniz, wants change in stance on hydraulic fracturing.
Read Morehttp://www.power-eng.com/articles/2013/05/senate-confirms-moniz-to-lead-doe-in-97-0-vote.html

t's Real: Climate Change is Happening

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:01:00 +0000

t's Real: Climate Change is Happening

Tom Zeller Jr., Huffington PostPublic opinion on the topic of climate change is notoriously fickle, changing -- quite literally sometimes -- with the weather. The latest bit of evidence on this: Yale's April 2013 climate change survey, which found, among other things, that Americans' conviction that global warming is happening had dropped by seven points, to 63 percent, over the preceding

by Tom Zeller Jr., Huffin... / 9h http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-zeller-jr/climate-change-study_b_3285245.html?utm_hp_ref=green

Obama Greenhouse Gas Regulations Could Face U.S. Supreme Court Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:48:00 +0000

Obama Greenhouse Gas Regulations Could Face U.S. Supreme Court Challenge

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/obama-greenhouse-gas-regulations_n_3284831.html

Chris Hayes Talks to Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher About the Climate Movement and What Comes Next

noreply@blogger.com (Michele Kearney) — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:34:00 +0000

Chris Hayes Talks to Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher About the Climate Movement and What Comes Next
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/05/16