By Amy Hardberger The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) adopted rules on Wednesday, August 8 th that fall short of protecting environmental flows in the Guadalupe, San Antonio, Mission and Aransas rivers and the San Antonio Bay system. These rules are intended to help ensure…
By Gernot Wagner There should no longer be any doubt. Climate change is here, and it is happening. 26,000 broken heat records this summer speak for themselves. Extreme weather events hit home. Another consequence of climate change, by contrast – rising sea levels – often seems far away and far…
A team of federal and university scientists on a 10-day expedition in the Gulf of Mexico has discovered Lophelia coral growing deeper than previously seen anywhere in the Gulf. Newly available information on Lophelia’s growth rate and conditions will inform future environmental review and…
By Eric Pooley To download a copy of this briefing paper, please click here . Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, processes used to extract natural gas from underground shale formations, have unlocked vast new domestic reserves — an unexpected abundance that has overturned many of…
By Elena Craft, PhD Credit: Mom's Clean Air Force Texas isn’t the only state dealing with air quality issues. In Georgia this week, I joined numerous experts working in a collaborative effort to develop cost-efficient strategies and solutions for reducing diesel engine emissions. At this…
By: Nancy Grundahl Have you discovered ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) art? It uses the characters of a typical computer to create graphics — like this fish art. ><((“> ><((“> ><((“> ><((“> ><((“> ><((“>…
Sinkhole free of radiation but residents still mad The Associated Press. August 10, 2012. "BATON ROUGE, La. — As state scientists monitored the toxicity of naturally occurring radiation at a slurry hole in Assumption Parish, residents said Thursday they were furious with their public state…
Scientists find steady reduction in one type of air pollutant, although region still suffers bad air days
By Lina Younes Like many Americans across the country, last Sunday night I was glued to my computer screen impatiently waiting for the confirmation of the successful landing of the mobile science laboratory “Curiosity” on Mars. This technological feat is similar in magnitude to the first landing…
Updated outlook calls for near- or above-normal Atlantic season
New BP claims boss is a stark contrast to Ken Feinberg By George Talbot, The Press-Register. August 8, 2012. "MOBILE, Alabama — “This is not the Feinberg operation.” So said U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, by way of introducing Patrick Juneau…" ( Read more ) EPA gives La grant to help fight…
Drought expands to cover nearly 63% of the Lower 48 states; wildfires consume 2 million acres The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during July was 77.6°F, 3.3°F above the 20th century average, marking the hottest July and the hottest month on record for the nation. The previous warmest…
By Elena Craft, PhD Credit: Live Trading News Over the last couple of years we've seen a lot of debate on the impacts that shale gas operations can have on local and regional air quality and even on the climate. But there's been less attention paid to the potential impacts to the…
Cross- posted from the Department of Labor Auto Recovery Blog By Mathy Stanislaus As I meet with mayors and talk with community leaders throughout the country, I witness first-hand the significant challenges communities face as they work to rebuild their economies. Taking action to support economic…
(New York, N.Y.) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck was joined today by New Jersey Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Senator Robert Menendez and Congressmember Bill Pascrell, Jr. as she announced that the EPA will safely demolish the E.C. Electroplating building at…
By EDF Blogs By: Richie Ahuja , Regional Director, Asia, and Andy Darrell , New York Regional Director and Deputy Director of the Energy Program Credit: Parivartan Sharma / Reuters “Leopards and elephants often wander in…”says the manager of a tea plantation in India, left in the…
Alisha Renfro, Staff Scientist, National Wildlife Federation Alisha Renfro is the staff scientist for the National Wildlife Federation’s (NWF) Mississippi River Delta Restoration program. Based in New Orleans, she provides accurate scientific information to help advocate for the best coastal…
RESTORE Act Offers Influx of Cash to Gulf States By Michelle Berger, Audubon Magazine. August 7, 2012. "Eighty. For Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, that’s the magic number: the percentage of Clean Water Act fines BP will eventually pay that are now legally required to go…
Drought expands to cover nearly 63 percent of the Lower 48; wildfires consume two million acres.
WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson joined Mexico’s Secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources Juan Elvira Quesada to sign the Border 2020 U.S.-Mexico Environmental program agreement. The signing was witnessed by a number of…