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EPA Quietly Releases Climate Change Health Effects Report

By postMigrator July 22, 2008 July 22, 2008 RT Newswire

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17, 2008
3:12 PM

CONTACT: Government Accountability Project
Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch Director
director@climatesciencewatch.org
Dylan Blaylock, Communications Director
202.408.0034 ext. 137, 202.236.3733 cell
dylanb@whistleblower.org

EPA Quietly Releases Climate Change Health Effects Report

WASHINGTON – July 17 – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a major study by the US Climate Change Science Program synthesizing current scientific knowledge of climate change-induced threats to human health. This information should be critical to the EPA’s previous “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. However, the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, the branch assigned rulemaking responsibility, evidently did not rely on and did not cite the CCSP report.

American Rivers Proposes Agenda to Overhaul Nation’s Flood Response

By postMigrator July 22, 2008 July 22, 2008 RT Newswire

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 16, 2008
2:32 PM

CONTACT: American Rivers
Amy Kober, 206-213-0330 x23

American Rivers Proposes Agenda to Overhaul Nation’s Flood Response
More Help for Today’s Victims, Prevent Tomorrow’s Victims

WASHINGTON – July 16 – As the Midwest continues to recover from June’s devastating floods, American Rivers, the nation’s leading river conservation organization, today released a national agenda for responding to the floods in a manner that both helps today’s victims and prevents tomorrow’s.

“This is the second “500-year flood” in less than two decades and the overwhelming scientific consensus is that climate change means more severe and more frequent storms, including more record-breaking floods,” said Rebecca Wodder, President of American Rivers. “Clearly business as usual won’t work for the communities struggling to recover from this year’s floods — and the communities at risk in the coming years.”

Sea Die-Out Blamed on Volcanoes

By postMigrator July 22, 2008 July 22, 2008 Uncategorized

Sea Die-Out Blamed on Volcanoes

Undersea volcanic activity has been blamed for a mass extinction in the seas 93 million years ago.

In the so-called “anoxic event” of the late Cretaceous Period, the ocean depths became starved of oxygen, wiping out swathes of marine organisms.

Researchers from the University of Alberta, Canada, found a tell-tale signature of underwater volcanism in rocks dating to the period.
Their findings have been published in the journal Nature.

Bush to Lift Offshore Oil Drilling Ban

By postMigrator July 22, 2008 November 19, 2010 RT Newswire

Published on Monday, July 14, 2008 by Agence France Presse
Bush to Lift Offshore Oil Drilling Ban

WASHINGTON – US President George W. Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive ban on oil drilling on the US outer continental shelf and urge lawmakers to follow suit, the White House said.

“The president will announce that he has decided to lift the executive ban on oil exploration in America’s outer continental shelf and he will again call on Congress to lift its legislative ban,” said spokeswoman Dana Perino.
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