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SEEC
Daily Clips 1.31.14
Sustainable Energy Environment
Coalition
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Top news stories:
I think when he uses
that
phrase, it's presenting us with a
menu,
said
Rep
Gerry Connolly (D-Va.),
who is co-chairman of the
House
Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition. There's nothing
wrong
with
that
approach -- and it leaves room for us to debate what
we
pick and choose on that
menu.
The resolution from
SEEC
Vice-Chair
Reps
Rush
Holt
(D-N.J.), SEEC
Member
Jim Himes (D-Conn.) and
SEEC
Member Mike
Honda
(D-Calif.), H.Res.
467,
proposes
the
designation of Feb.
2 as Darwin
Day
to
recognize Charles Darwin's
contributions to
science.
Following
40
years of sustained fighting on
behalf of
human health, the
environment,
and a livable
climate,
SEEC
Member
Congressman
Henry Waxman (D-CA) announced on Thursday
that
he would
retire from Congress after this year.
The
U.S.
State Department is preparing a report that
will
probably disappoint environmentalists and
opponents
of
the
Keystone pipeline, according
to
people
who
have been
briefed
on
the draft
of
the
document. While the report will deviate from a March draft in some ways to the liking of
environmentalists,
the changes won't be as sweeping as
they
had sought, several
people
familiar with
the
government's deliberations over the review told Bloomberg News. Changes could still be made
to
the
report before its release, which could come as early
as tomorrow.
President Barack Obama will
nominate
former federal prosecutor Norman
Bay now
the head
of
enforcement
at the
U.S.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
to
be the agency's chairman.
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More than 12,000 megawatts
of U S
wind farms were
under
construction
at the
end
of
2013,
the most
ever,
as
developers raced
to
qualify for an expiring federal tax credit, according
to the
American Wind
Energy Association.
For California, 2013 was the driest year since the state started measuring rainfall in 1849.
Paleoclimatologist B Lynn Ingram says
that,
according to the width of old tree rings, California hasn t
been this
dry
for about 500 years.
Energy news:
Wind power advocates urged Congress on Thursday
to
quickly restore the production tax credit
that
expired
at
the end of 2013, saying
that
a prolonged period
without
it threatens gains made in recent
years.
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.)
might
be interested
to
a
return
as top Democrat on the House Energy and
Commerce
Committee following
Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-Calif.) decision
to
retire.
People on both sides
of
the shale drilling debate were scratching their heads yesterday trying
to
figure
out a new proposal on shale from President Obama. He didn t
mention it
in his speech, but in a fact
sheet released
as
part of
the
State
of the
Union rollout, he proposed Sustainable Shale
Gas Growth
Zones.
A group of senators is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its proposed volume
levels for the amount of biofuels
that
must be blended by refiners into the nation s oil supply.
The National Council of Chain Restaurants has urged the EPA to further reduce the levels of corn ethanol
mandated under
the
Renewable Fuel Standard.
For all the debate over whether Washington should
lift
the nation s decades-old ban on exporting crude
oil,
the thing that
matters most may
be
the
price
at
the
pump.
Climate news:
The
Metropolitan Water
District, the Los Angeles-based utility for 19 million
people
in
Southern
California, said
it would
ask customers
to voluntarily
reduce water use
by
20 percent amid a
drought.
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A group
of
17 philanthropic groups including
the
Wallace Global Fund and John
Merck
Fund with a
combined asset base
of
about $1.8 billion has vowed
to
divest from fossil-fuel companies and invest in
clean-energy technology.
Seventy-six business groups, including the
U S
Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of
Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Gas Association, have agreed
to
dedicate necessary resources
to
vigorously
participate
in every facet
of
President Obama's effort
to
tackle climate change through
regulation, said Karen Harbert,
president of the
Chamber's
Institute for
21st Century Energy.
Petition filed by 16 green groups outlines a new basis for challenging the State Department's review
of
the
project,
as
well
as
hints
at
a future lawsuit.
The
meeting
of
nearly
200
governments
in Peru
later this
year
for
a
major
UN
climate
change
summit
must produce the first draft of a global deal
to
cut emissions, the country's environment minister says.
Former
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been tapped
to
be U.N. special envoy for cities and
climate change, sources
familiar with the situation
said on Thursday.
From 1999 through 2006,
methane
concentrations in
the
atmosphere stopped increasing after more
than a decade
of
strong growth. Then they took
off
again. It is, said Euan Nisbet,
of the
University of
London in an interview, a real puzzle.
Hundreds of drivers were reunited with their abandoned cars and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal ordered
state employees back to work Friday as the metro Atlanta region rebounded from a winter storm that
coated the area with snow and ice.
Life has never been easy
for just-hatched
Magellanic penguins,
but
climate change
is
making
it
worse,
according
to
a decades-long study
of the
largest breeding colony
of
the birds.
Environment Health news:
Living near hydraulic
fracturing
-
or
f racking - sites
may
increase
the
risk
of
some birth defects by
as
much
as 30 percent, a new study suggests. In the U.S., more than 15 million people now live within a
mile of a well.
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