- Apple Says Data Centers Now Use 100% Renewable Energy
- Windfarm sickness spreads by word of mouth, Australian study finds—"Health complaints from people living around turbines shown to be psychological effect of anti-wind lobby making people worry."
- Fox News: Solar Power "Might Be Tanking Our Economy"
- Keystone XL pipeline will create 35 permanent jobs, State Department says—Whee.
- Keystone XL pipeline not good for Canada, opposition leader suggests—"Thomas Mulcair criticises Canada's Conservative government and says pipeline is exacting heavy environmental cost."
- Dirty little secrets about the dirty tar sand oil—"It is time the press starts doing the hard work of investigative reporting and stop spewing a one-sided view of the Keystone XL."
- When to Say No—"The revised plan for the proposed oil pipeline is still a threat to the environment." NYT
- Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Measure Passes Senate
- BP asks judge to halt 'fictitious' and 'absurd' Deepwater oil spill payouts—"Oil giant asks New Orleans judge to temporarily halt payouts and says it could be 'irreparably harmed' by billions in costs."
- Gulf Coast attorneys general say BP 'wrong' to challenge oil spill claims process
- BP accused of rewriting environmental record on Wikipedia—"A British Petroleum representative allegedly rewrote 44 percent of the oil giant's Wikipedia page, including the environmental sections. Some Wikipedia editors are crying foul."
- America's Most Obvious Tax Reform Idea: Kill the Oil and Gas Subsidies—"In a world where $100-a-barrel oil is here to stay, there's no need to pad the industry's bottom line."
- EPA reverses water pollution decision after lobbyist steps in—"A Texas mining project was approved despite contamination fears, exposing a troubling pattern of aquifer exemption." Salon
- Sewage Plants Struggle To Treat Wastewater Produced By Fracking Operations
- In China, public anger over secrecy on environment
- China: More Pigs Found in River—The number of dead pigs found dead in Shanghai, which already started at nearly 3,000 "rose to more than 13,000" and now the latest count is at 16,000. NYT
- Demand for chopsticks killing trees, Chinese lawmaker says
- Climate science-denying GOPer to head climate subcommittee Salon
- We're Screwed: 11,000 Years' Worth of Climate Data Prove It
- Texas Climatologist: Global surface temperatures likely to set a new record this year
- Research Reveals Almost All Climate Science Denial Books Linked to Conservative Think Tanks
- Obama Will Use Nixon-Era Law to Fight Climate Change
- Thousands sign school climate change petition started by 15-year-old—"Esha Marwaha from west London says she is outraged that climate change has been scaled back in national curriculum."
- German scientists quit oil sands research over public climate concerns
- 86 elephants killed in Chad poaching massacre—"Armed ivory poachers are reported to have killed 86 elephants in less than a week, including pregnant females and calves."
- In Asia, tide slowly turning against shark fin soup
- Five shark species win protection against finning trade—"Cites summit votes for strictly controlled permits to export fins of oceanic whitetip, porbeagle and three species of hammerhead."
- Overfished and under-protected: Oceans on the brink of catastrophic collapse
- Deer cull would threaten thousands of jobs, say furious gamekeepers
- EU could impose pesticide ban to protect bees
- PETA Goes After Assassin's Creed For Its Depiction Of Whaling; Ubisoft Responds With A Heaping Dose Of Sarcasm
- Re-re-re-thinking the rise of mammals and death of the dinosaurs
- Extinction that paved way for dinosaurs definitively linked to volcanism—"New dates also show life started recovering while eruptions were in progress."
- A Stealthy De-Extinction Startup—"Who wouldn't want to see a saber-toothed tiger?"
