ContributorNetwork - According to the Hill, the League of Conservation Voters has announced its yearly rankings of lawmakers with the best and worst voting records in terms of energy and environmental measures. The league analyzed 11 votes in the Senate and 35 in the House of Representatives. 2/7/2012 7:16:50 PM |
 AP - BP PLC has raised its quarterly dividend by 14 percent after posting double-digit gains in profit and revenue in the last three months of 2011 despite further big payments to compensate for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Reuters - Trace amounts of a radioactive element found in fish near the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant have now been found in bass in an opposite corner of the state, apparently clearing the plant of any tie to the contamination, a state health official said. 2/7/2012 5:37:00 PM |
LiveScience.com - It seems the general public just can't make up its mind about the existence of man-made climate change. Rather than steadily increasing or decreasing over the last decade, the U.S. public's concern over our warming planet has jumped up and down, according to Gallup polls. But what exactly is driving this seesawing of opinions on climate change? 2/7/2012 2:44:59 PM |
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | It goes to show you that some people aren't worried about such weighty issues as the global economy or tensions in the Middle East. They're not even worried, it would appear, about climate change or starving children in countries far, far away. According to The Sideshow, the company Naked and Famous is making a $150 pair of men's jeans that can stand months without washing and smells, when scratched, like raspberry candy. 2/7/2012 1:52:59 PM |
Reuters - Bidders will be able to buy fine art, a vacation in the Maldives, or an internship with designer Donna Karan and help the planet at the same time in Christie's annual Green Auction, which is expected reap millions for environmental causes. 2/7/2012 1:51:05 PM |
AP - A federal judge has set aside nearly seven hours for opening statements in a trial over the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill. 2/7/2012 6:25:18 AM |
Reuters - BP said it was preparing "vigorously" for lawsuits related to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which are due to start later this month, as it unveiled a rise in fourth-quarter earnings boosted by higher oil prices and one-off gains. 2/7/2012 6:19:54 AM |
Reuters - In the village of Pithauli, surrounded by ripening mustard fields, a woman hauls a cow carcass on a trolley, drops it in an open field, then runs and hides in a nearby hut as dozens of vultures swoop down. 2/7/2012 6:11:56 AM |
Time.com - The energy-starved country needs wind power but environmental critics say it will not only mar the landscape but harm the wildlife 2/7/2012 5:45:00 AM |
ContributorNetwork - While Austin, like most Texas cities, has a recycling program, the capital of the state is experimenting with commercial composting, using food and other organic waste to create mulch and potter's soil for commercial use, according to the Austin American Statesman. 2/6/2012 11:00:54 PM |
ContributorNetwork - The Texas Public Policy Foundation is warning of an "approaching regulatory avalanche" in a report. The foundation says new rules in the works by the Environmental Protection Agency could cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Here are the details of the report. 2/6/2012 9:36:29 PM |
AP - China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change. 2/6/2012 12:07:41 AM |
ContributorNetwork - According to a blog post from Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, the environmentalist organization accepted millions of donated dollars from the natural gas industry to fight against coal-fired plants nationwide. Here are the details. 2/5/2012 11:31:00 PM |
Reuters - There was no risk of a radiation leak after a fire broke out at a Moscow nuclear research center housing a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor Sunday, said officials, but Greenpeace Russia expressed serious concern about the incident. 2/5/2012 1:15:31 PM |
Reuters - Canada will set up a new environmental monitoring system for the northern Alberta oil sands as it seeks to fend off harsh international criticism following revelations that oversight of the huge petroleum development has been insufficient. 2/3/2012 6:10:28 PM |
Reuters - The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday awarded $40.2 million in grants to farmers, ranchers and farmer-controlled rural business ventures aimed at spurring locally produced food supplies and renewable energy ventures. 2/3/2012 11:20:07 AM |
AP - Federal safety officials will vote Feb. 9 on whether to approve what could become the nation's first nuclear plant in a generation. 2/3/2012 11:03:25 AM |
LiveScience.com - Hundreds of species never before seen in a Peruvian national park have been found during an inventory of the Amazonian forests there, according to a conservation group. 2/3/2012 10:40:04 AM |
 AP - British leader David Cameron made a third unwanted shake up of his government since 2010 on Friday after Cabinet minister Chris Huhne quit as prosecutors charged him over an alleged attempt to pin a speeding penalty on his ex-wife.
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