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"Hot and Getting Hotter: Heat Islands Cooking U.S. Cities"

"Cities are almost always hotter than the surrounding rural area but global warming takes that heat and makes it worse. In particularly days over 90°F, are associated with dangerous ozone pollution levels that can trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks, and otthe future, this combination of urbanization and climate change could raise urban temperatures to levels that threaten human health, strain energy resources, and compromise economic productivity."

Source: Climate Central, 08/21/2014

U.S. Agency: West Virginia DHHR Can’t Handle Chemical Incidents

"CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Department of Health and Human Resources lacks a program and properly trained staff to assess community-wide chemical exposures like those that followed the Elk River chemical leak in January, federal public health officials said in a new review made public Tuesday."

Source: Charleston Gazette, 08/20/2014

"Protesters Urge Hasty Cleanup at Abandoned Chemical Plant"

"Residents from a modest southeast Houston neighborhood pointed Sunday toward a lagoon of algae-covered water with a pungent chemical smell that filled the parking lot of an abandoned cleaning facility for chemical trucks. Only some weeds and a cyclone fence separate the facility from homes and a charter school."

Source: Houston Chronicle, 08/12/2014

"Geothermal Industry Grows, With Help From Oil and Gas Drilling"

"Geothermal energy — tapping into heat deep underground and using it to produce power — is sometimes described as a forgotten renewable. It languishes in the shadows of better-known sources like wind and the sun, and in 2011 it accounted for less than 1 percent of electric power worldwide, according to last year’s World Energy Outlook."

Source: NY Times, 07/28/2014

Globe Sizzles To Temperature Record in June, After Breaking May Record

"The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record in June. That's after the world broke a record in May."

Source: AP, 07/22/2014

Environment Ministers From 29 Countries Meet in Berlin To Discuss Long-Term Goals

"NEW DELHI: Environment ministers and their representatives from 29 countries representing the entire spectrum of interests in climate negotiations will meet in Berlin for two days starting July 14 even as increasing instances of unprecedented heat waves and cold winters illuminate the urgent need for a global plan to counter climate change."

Source: Economic Times, 07/15/2014

"In Las Vegas, Climate Change Deniers Re-Group, Vow to Keep Doubt Alive"

"On Monday, the Heartland Institute convened its Ninth International Climate Change Conference in Las Vegas. A Chicago-based, non-profit free-market think tank with a $6 million annual budget, Heartland has been hosting conferences for those dubious of the science confirming human-caused climate change since 2008."

Source: Bloomberg, 07/11/2014

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"Hot and Getting Hotter: Heat Islands Cooking U.S. Cities"

U.S. Agency: West Virginia DHHR Can’t Handle Chemical Incidents

"Protesters Urge Hasty Cleanup at Abandoned Chemical Plant"

"Geothermal Industry Grows, With Help From Oil and Gas Drilling"

Globe Sizzles To Temperature Record in June, After Breaking May Record

Environment Ministers From 29 Countries Meet in Berlin To Discuss Long-Term Goals

"In Las Vegas, Climate Change Deniers Re-Group, Vow to Keep Doubt Alive"

"Obama Attacks Republicans for Appeasing Climate Deniers"

"May Was Hottest on Earth Since Records Began"

"How Rupert Murdoch Created the World’s Newest Climate Change Villain"

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