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From the office of Congressman John Garamendi: “Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, CA), a Member of the House Natural Resources Committee and former Deputy Interior Secretary under President Clinton, is doing all he can to prevent reigniting another California water war. Yesterday, Garamendi sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to all Members of Congress urging his Democratic [...]
From website of Congressman Devin Nunes: “The House is currently reviewing a bill that would restore water to tens of thousands of farmers in California. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act, H.R. 1837, amends previous legislation in an effort to restore water to California’s Central Valley which drought has cost millions of acres of [...]
From Congresswoman Grace Napolitano posted at the San Francisco Chronicle: “On Feb. 17, the House Natural Resources Committee passed the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act, a bill that would have been more aptly named the “State Water Rights Repeal Act.” The bill, authored by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, is an obvious and explicit attempt [...]
From the Sacramento Bee, this commentary by Congressman John Garamendi: “As early as Wednesday, Congress is voting on a dangerous bill that would turn upside down 150 years of California water law. House Resolution 1837, the so-called San Joaquin Water Reliability Act, removes all environmental protections for the Delta and Central Valley rivers while allowing [...]
Climate scientists at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week were elated to hear that the United States and five other countries had agreed to work toward cutting pollutants other than carbon dioxide thought to cause about a third of current human-influenced global warming. After all, many of them [...]
The United States and five other countries agreed this week to fund an effort to cut emissions of methane, soot and other pollutants to start to slow the rate of human-induced climate change.
If you were trying to invent with a term that sounds as scary as possible, you couldn’t do better than “fracking.” That’s industry terminology for hydraulic fracturing, the process used to get at unconventional natural gas and oil contained in tight rock layers that need to be cracked open—or fractured—so drillers can get at the [...]
East Coast LNG import facility will probably be changed to an export facility. This development results in higher prices for American consumers, while our water gets fracked. In contrast — it is illegal to export crude oil produced in the US. Dominion, based in Richmond, Va., has won approval from the Department of Energy to [...]There is some poetic justice there. According to the agency’s website, state regulations give the DEC “jurisdiction over waste material which is to be beneficially used.” The spreading of gas brine in Pittsfield by a firm called Al-Kleen Inc. of Earleville was permitted by the DEC in 2010, according to state records. via Area official [...]
Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to find the right line on shale natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal—according to most scientists—and produces far fewer air pollutants. That was enough for many major green groups to give support to gas as a “bridge fuel” [...]