Groundwater Protection Council | Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission http://fracfocus.org/ [From Website] On this site you can search for information about the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells. You will also find educational materials designed to help you put this information in perspective. [From Caspar, WY Tribune] A national … Continue reading »
Posted on April 12, 2011 …
Mitigating Climate Change Through Restoration and Management of Coastal Wetlands and Near-shore Marine Ecosystems : Challenges and Opportunities
World Bank | International Union for the Conservation of Nature | ESA PWA / by Stephen Crooks, Dorothee Herr, Jerkerv Tamelander, Dan Laffoley and Justin Vandever http://tinyurl.com/3md8upd [From Press Release] Drainage and degradation of coastal wetlands emit significant amounts of carbon dioxide directly to the atmosphere and lead to decreased carbon sequestration, a new World Bank … Continue reading »
Low Carbon Commercial Vehicle & Off-highway Roadmap
UK Automotive Council http://tinyurl.com/3ewepdd [Green Car Congress] The UK Automotive Council has published a long-term strategy aimed at helping manufacturers of commercial vehicles and construction equipment move to low-carbon solutions. These technologies include hybridization, more efficient powertrains and alternative fuels; the “Low carbon Commercial Vehicle & Off-highway roadmap” features parallel technology streams depending on duty … Continue reading »
Closing Yucca Mountain: Litigation Associated with Attempts to Abandon the Planned Nuclear Waste Repository
Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41675/2011-03-04/?26126 …The Obama Administration, in conjunction with DOE, has taken three important steps directed toward terminating the Yucca Mountain project. First, the Administration’s FY2011 budget proposal eliminated all funding for the Yucca Mountain project. Second, the President and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu established a Blue Ribbon Commission to consider alternative solutions … Continue reading »
Liability and Compensation Issues Raised by the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41679/2011-03-11/?26120 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill raised many issues for policymakers, including the ability of the existing oil spill liability and compensation framework to respond to a catastrophic spill. This framework determines (1) who is responsible for paying for oil spill cleanup costs and the economic and natural resource damages from an … Continue reading »
Variability in Krill Biomass Links Harvesting and Climate Warming to Penguin Population Changes in Antarctica
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print April 11, 2011, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1016560108 ) / by Wayne Z. Trivelpiecea,Jefferson T. Hinkea, Aileen K. Miller, Christian S. Reiss, Susan G. Trivelpiece and George M. Watters (open access article) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/04/06/1016560108.abstract The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) and adjacent Scotia Sea support abundant wildlife populations, many … Continue reading »
