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"Wood Burning Creates Top Cancer Risk in Oregon's Air, EPA Says"

"Pollution from burning wood in stoves, fireplaces and elsewhere is the top cancer risk in Oregon's air, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency analysis."

Source: Portland Oregonian, 07/09/2009

"The Sun Has Spots, Finally"

"After one of the longest sunspot droughts in modern times, solar activity picked up quickly over the weekend."

Source: Space.com, 07/09/2009

"Court Upholds EPA 'Nonattainment' Designations for Soot"

"A federal appeals court yesterday upheld nearly all U.S. EPA designations of areas where airborne soot concentrations exceed national standards, rejecting challenges from state and local governments and industry groups."

Source: Greenwire, 07/09/2009

"Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data"

""The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing -- that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong -- are challenged by the same data and reports the industry is using to bolster its position."

Source: ProPublica, 07/09/2009

"Pickens Still Gung-Ho On Wind Farm Despite Delay"

T. Boone Pickens postponed a plan to create the world's largest wind farm in Texas. The billionaire had spent $60 million advertising his plan to combat what he calls the United States' addiction to foreign oil.

Source: NPR, 07/09/2009

"Pennsylvania To Regulate Salt Discharges"

"The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is working to regulate salt discharges that result from natural-gas drilling."

Source: ES&T, 07/09/2009

Greenpeace Climate Climbers Busted on Mt. Rushmore

"Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change."

Source: AFP, 07/09/2009

"Global Deal on Climate-Warming HFCs Hinges on Secret White House Policy"

"Hydrofluorocarbons ... are ... many thousands of times more potent than CO2 as climate warming agents, and scientists say their spread could become as much as 50 percent of the global greenhouse gas problem by 2050. Yet the public is barely aware of the issue, and as the White House works to hammer out its policy, it seems to want to keep it that way."

Source: SolveClimate, 07/09/2009

"Group of 8 Agrees On a Ceiling for Temperature Rise"

"The world's leading industrial nations tentatively agreed Wednesday to try to prevent global temperatures from rising above a fixed level, after a more far-reaching proposal to slash production of greenhouse gases fizzled... ."

Source: WashPost, 07/09/2009

"Enviros Sue Over Energy Transmission Across Federal Lands"

"A coalition of environmental groups is suing federal agencies in an effort to change the location of corridors to transmit energy across Western lands."

Source: NYTimes, 07/09/2009

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