"New Keystone XL Route Could Still Threaten Ogallala Aquifer"
"Map used to define Nebraska Sandhills doesn't include nearby areas also vulnerable to contamination, InsideClimate News has learned."
Source: InsideClimate News, 03/14/2012
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"Older Nuclear Plants Pose Safety Challenge: IAEA"
"Eighty percent of the world's nuclear power plants are more than 20 years old, raising safety concerns, a draft U.N. report says a year after Japan's Fukushima disaster. Many operators have begun programs, or expressed their intention, to run reactors beyond their planned design lifetimes, said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document which has not yet been made public."
Source: Reuters, 03/14/2012
"Energy Dept. Oversight on Loans Is Inadequate, GAO Says"
"The Energy Department is mismanaging oversight of $34 billion in taxpayer-backed loans for green-energy and other projects, congressional auditors said Monday in a new report."
"The Government Accountability Office said it took Energy Department staff more than three months to come up with data on the status of applications for loan guarantees, leading auditors to question whether oversight of the program is timely or fair to companies seeking federal subsidies.
Source: Wash Post, 03/14/2012
"World Breakthrough on Salt-Tolerant Wheat"
"A team of Australian scientists has bred salt tolerance into a variety of durum wheat that shows improved grain yield by 25% on salty soils. Using 'non-GM' crop breeding techniques, scientists from CSIRO Plant Industry have introduced a salt-tolerant gene into a commercial durum wheat, with spectacular results shown in field tests."
Source: SPX, 03/13/2012
"Climate, Food Pressures Require Rethink On Water: U.N."
"The world's water supply is being strained by climate change and the growing food, energy and sanitary needs of a fast-growing population, according to a United Nations study that calls for a radical rethink of policies to manage competing claims.
"Freshwater is not being used sustainably," UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said in a statement. "Accurate information remains disparate, and management is fragmented ... the future is increasingly uncertain and risks are set to deepen."
Source: Reuters, 03/13/2012
"Solyndra Is Blamed as Clean-Energy Loan Program Stalls"
The Democrat-controlled Senate Energy Committee will hold a hearing today [Tuesday] which could turn the table on the House's highly politicized hearings condemning the Obama administration's administration of the Congress-passed energy loan program. Energy Sec. Steven Chu will testify.
Source: NY Times, 03/13/2012
"Gas Prices Trigger Obama Scramble"
"The White House scrambled Monday to contain the political damage from rising gas prices, which have emerged as a primary threat to President Obama’s reelection."
Source: E2 Wire, 03/13/2012
"Nuclear Disaster in Japan Was Avoidable, Critics Contend"
"TOKYO -- A year after a huge earthquake and tsunami caused nearly catastrophic meltdowns at a nuclear plant, Japan is still grappling with a crucial question: was the accident simply the result of an unforeseeable natural disaster or something that could have been prevented?
Source: NY Times, 03/12/2012
Gas Drilling Industry Paying Penn State To Train Drilling Regulators
"What happens when the fox builds the hen house?"
Source: Harrisburg Patriot-News, 03/09/2012
"Friends of the Earth Sues U.S. EPA Over Lead in Aviation Fuel"
"The nonprofit group Friends of the Earth filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency today to force the regulation of lead emissions from general aviation aircraft under the Clean Air Act."
Source: ENS, 03/09/2012
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