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Special Report: ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair with Fracking (By Sara
Jerving, PR Watch, 9/27/12)
Largest
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Installation in U.S. Operating at Texas A&M
(By Derek Markham, Treehugger.com - Technology/Wind Technology, 9/27/12)
Police
Accused of Using Torture Tactics Against Nonviolent Keystone XL Pipeline
Protesters: A tree-sit continues in Texas despite an unprecedented escalation
in police and industry violence toward peaceful blockaders working to prevent
construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. (By Candice Bernd, Alternet.org -
Environment, 9/27/12)
Arctic
Methane Release: The End Of The World As We Know It? Arctic methane, and all
that frozen soil carbon, could easily play a huge role, not so much in the
near-term evolution of Earth's climate, but in the long tail of the global
warming climate event (By Climate Guest Blogger, ThinkProgress.org -
Climate Progress, 9/27/12)
Plastic
debris reaches Southern Ocean, previously thought to be pristine: Researchers
on 70,000-mile voyage to investigate climate change say effect of humans is now
'truly planetary' (By Zoe Holman, The [UK] Guardian - Environment Blog,
9/27/12)
Democratic
senators want a stop to Arctic drilling (By Sean Cockerham, McClatchy News,
9/26/12)
New
Groups Make A Conservative Argument On Climate Change (NPR/WYPR, 9/26/12)
100 Million Dead,
Trillion of Dollars Lost from Climate Change by 2030, Estimates Study (By Common
Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, 9/26/12) Full study here
Ocean Acidification
Occurring at Unprecedented Rates (By Allison Winter, Environmental News
Network, 9/26/12)
Fracking
Regulations In States Leave Wells Without Inspection, Environmental Group Says
(By Tom Zeller, Jr., The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 9/25/12)
Climate
change is already damaging global economy, report finds: Economic impact of
global warming is costing the world more than $1.2 trillion a year, wiping 1.6%
annually from global GDP (By Fiona Harvey, The [UK] Guardian - Environment
Blog, 9/25/12)
Markey/Waxman
Report: Carbon Pollution Creating A ‘Cocktail Of Heat And Extreme Weather'
(By Katie Valentine and Stephen Lacey, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress
Blog, 9/25/12)
Cargo
cyclists replace truck drivers on European city streets (Low Tech Magazine,
9/24/12)
Analysis:
93 Percent Of Fox News Climate Coverage Is ‘Misleading' (By Stephen Lacey,
ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress, 9/24/12)
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