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Diplomats
from almost 190 nations endorsed a set of measures on global warming,
laying the groundwork for a treaty to be adopted in 2015 that would
limit pollution by all nations for the first time.
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Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other international
negotiators confirmed that Iran has reached a deal with six world powers
during talks in Geneva on Tehran's nuclear program and the sanctions
that have been imposed on the country because of it.
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"When
we look to the Gulf of Mexico, we see that for shallow water oil
drilling, 1 in 272 wells has a spill, while that number increases to 1
in 35 wells for deep sea drilling and to 1 in 19 wells for ultra-deep
sea drilling."
Wow, simply wow. BIGAg on GMO steroids hiding behind Organic brands and roadblocking GMO labeling...
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Dolphins Are Dying In Droves
Dolphins are dying all around Florida, and scientists don't know how to stop it. The die-offs of bottlenose dolphins are going on in three different places and appear to be from more than one cause. Although dolphins are not an endangered species, the loss of so many all at once is clearly bad news, scientists say. What makes so many deaths disturbing, he said, is that dolphins are regarded as "sentinels for ocean and human health," not unlike canaries in a coal mine. The first sign of trouble came from the Gulf of Mexico. A month before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill began, dead dolphins began washing ashore along the Gulf Coast.
http://www.theledger.com/article/20131123/NEWS/131129572/0/search
Dolphins are dying all around Florida, and scientists don't know how to stop it. The die-offs of bottlenose dolphins are going on in three different places and appear to be from more than one cause. Although dolphins are not an endangered species, the loss of so many all at once is clearly bad news, scientists say. What makes so many deaths disturbing, he said, is that dolphins are regarded as "sentinels for ocean and human health," not unlike canaries in a coal mine. The first sign of trouble came from the Gulf of Mexico. A month before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill began, dead dolphins began washing ashore along the Gulf Coast.
http://www.theledger.com/article/20131123/NEWS/131129572/0/search
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Marylee
Orr, executive director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network,
said the number of caverns within the proposed buffer zone is a concern
because a problem with just one of them can be catastrophic. She said
the state’s proposed rules need to be
even tighter and more protective of the public and the environment.“I
think we need to be cautious because if there is a problem, it is not a
small problem, … you know what I mean?” Orr said. “It is very impactful
to the community, and, I believe, to their health.”
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If
Beverly is approved for food stamps, she'll get about $1.50 per meal.
David and Charles Koch made enough in one second at the office in 2012
to pay her food bill for an entire year.
New Thanksgiving: Billionaires Gorge as Many in America Near Starvation
www.truth-out.org
If Beverly is approved for food stamps, she'll get about $1.50 per meal. David
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For
almost three months, Monterey, Calif., and nearby coastal areas have
played host to a mammoth convocation of sea life that local scientists
say is unprecedented in their memories.
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The
Macondo well incident will be imprinted in our minds for years to come
about the dangers of offshore drilling. Not only did it put an emphasis
on offshore drillers to be more cognizant of their safety precautions,
U.S. government oversight has also
stepped up its game. The new director of the government body that
oversees offshore drilling -- the Bureau of Safety and Environmental
Enforcement, BSEE for short -- has made it his agency's mission to go
further than just oversight, but also look to help prevent spills. How
is this possible? And how will it affect offshore drillers going
forward? Let's take a look at what the BSEE has in mind.
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This
will be J.J. Creppel's last Thanksgiving at his home in Plaquemines
Parish, a sliver of marshy land that juts out from the southeast corner
of Louisiana and hugs the Mississippi River as it empties into the Gulf
of Mexico. But J.J. says after 60 years,
he’s finally leaving the Cajun fishing community he loves so dearly.
For many like him, life has changed since the BP oil disaster errupted
more than three years ago. “The oil spill finished off the shrimp,” he
says in a whisper.
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Two
weeks before the 2010 Gulf oil disaster, BP was responsible for another
toxic leak that lasted for forty days. Now, the oil giant is try to
weasel out of liability for that event. According to a 2012 lawsuit
filed by 48,000 Texas residents, a BP
oil refinery in that state released more than 538,000 pounds of toxic
chemicals into the air. And, the oil giant didn't tell residents who
lived near that plant about the "toxic soup" of chemicals, including
benzene and carbon monoxide, that they were exposed to. After finding
out about the leak, and the health risks, the group of Texas residents
sued BP, asking for $10 billion dollars in damages. Rather than pay for
the harm that they caused, or even try to settle the lawsuits, BP is
trying to expedite the claims, saying they're simply "clogging up the
court." If BP cared about freeing up our court system, they certainly
wouldn't be delaying claims related to the Gulf oil disaster, or asking
courts to free them from a $9.2 billion dollar settlement in that case.
The fact is, the oil giant shouldn't be excused from paying for any of
the damages they cause. They have already privatized the gains, and we
can't let them socialize the losses.
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State
officials were in Unalaska on Friday to talk about a proposal
pre-authorizing the use of chemical dispersants on oil spills in Alaska
waters. Officials from the Alaska Regional Response Team spent four
hours at City Hall taking public comment on the proposed changes.
State Proposes Changes to Oil Spill Response Plan | Alaska Public Media
www.alaskapublic.org
State officials were in Unalaska on Friday to talk about a proposal pre-authorizing
( http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/p/broken-search-corexit_931.html )
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This
video puts all of the misdeeds of BP into one concise scenario. The use
of social media, TV Commercials and lies, non-payment of claims, lies
and cover-ups about the true state of the environment and human health,
and the fallout of th...See More
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“It
is now on par with the methane being released from the arctic tundra,
which is considered to be one of the major sources of methane in the
Northern Hemisphere,” Natalia Shakhova, one of the paper’s lead authors
and a scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said in a
statement. “Increased methane releases in this area are a possible new
climate-change-driven factor that will strengthen over time.”
( Advertising how poorly 'greenhouse gases' are tracked when making 'climate models' )
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U.S.
emissions of methane, a potent heat-trapping greenhouse gas, may be 50%
higher than federal estimates, reports a team of Harvard and other
researchers today.
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The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weighed in Monday on
why the 2013 hurricane season, which officially ends Saturday, had the
fewest number of hurricanes since 1982 and was the sixth-least-active
since 1950 in terms of storms’ collective strength and duration.
Nov.
20 marked the 33rd anniversary of the collapse of the salt mine beneath
Lake Peigneur in Iberia Parish. The environmental catastrophe resulted
from a miscalculation by Texaco while drilling for oil, causing the
mine’s ceiling to be pierced by a
14-inch drill bit. The lake drained into the mine, taking with it trees,
land and barges, and endangering many lives. Today, residents near the
lake are worried that another disaster could befall them, this time
because of efforts to store petroleum products within the caverns
beneath the lake. In spite of these concerns, oil companies have fought
to expand storage in these obviously vulnerable caverns.
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www.occupydemocrats.com
On
Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)
introduced legislation that would eliminate tax subsidies for the oil,
gas, and coal industries. The timing for this couldn't be better, as
budget
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ARGENTINA
- "The country’s entire soybean crop, along with nearly all of its
cotton and corn crops, have become genetically modified over the last
decade. Along with the increase in GMO crops and pesticide use, the
country has seen a disturbing and alarming growth in the prevalence of
birth defects, cancer rates, and other negative health ailments."
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