News: Archive for February, 2012
‘An internal audit cleared the State Department of major missteps and conflicts of interest in its environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline, but faulted the agency for its lack of scientific expertise and for not adequately considering alternative routes.’
via Audit endorses State Department review of Keystone XL oil pipeline – latimes.com.
‘GOLDEN — A day before Colorado Republicans voice presidential preferences at the caucuses, Rick Santorum dismissed climate change as “a hoax” and advocated an energy plan heavy on fossil fuels.’
via Santorum and Gingrich dismiss climate change, vow to dismantle the EPA | The Colorado Independent.
‘WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors at a site in eastern Georgia.’
via NRC approves first new nuclear plant in 3 decades – Yahoo! News.
‘NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Southern Co. SO -0.02% won approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to begin full construction of two new reactors, each with 1,100 megawatts of capacity, at its Plant Vogle site in Georgia, the power company said Thursday. It’s the first new nuclear power facility to be built in the U.S. in 30 years.’
via Southern Co. gets license to build nuclear plants – MarketWatch.
‘What’s most striking about Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone, is what you don’t see. There are no people, few cars, no sign of life, aside from the occasional livestock wandering empty roads.’
via Japan’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone Shows Few Signs of Life – Yahoo!.
‘Insurance commissioners in California, New York and Washington State will require that companies disclose how they intend to respond to the risks their businesses and customers face from increasingly severe storms and wildfires, rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change, California’s commissioner said Wednesday.’
via Three States Tell Insurers to Disclose Responses to Climate Change – NYTimes.com.
‘In New York City, where “unseasonably mild” and “balmy” have been the forecasts of late, temperatures this week have been at least 10 to 20 degrees warmer than the usual average high of 39, a pattern seen across much of the eastern half of the country.’