Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

BLM Ignores Process, 2.5 Million Acres to Be Opened for Oil Shale Development; Public Denied Opportunity for Input

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October 7, 2008 12:32 PM

 CONTACT: The Wilderness Society
Nada Culver, 202-650-5818×117, nada_culver@tws.org
Chase Huntley, 202/429-7431, chase_huntley@tws.org
Drew Bush, 202/429-7441, drew_bush@tws.org
 
BLM Ignores Process, 2.5 Million Acres to Be Opened for Oil Shale Development; Public Denied Opportunity for Input

 

WASHINGTON – October 7 – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) undermined the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act when it decided to amend 12 land management plans for Colorado, Utah and Wyoming without providing an opportunity for the public to protest, The Wilderness Society charged in a letter sent today to the U.S. Department of the Interior. The plans were amended in particular to expedite the commercial development of oil shale in the Green River Basin of the three states.

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“Deadly Dozen” Diseases Seen Due to Climate Change

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“Deadly Dozen” Diseases Seen Due to Climate Change

SPAIN: October 9, 2008
 
BARCELONA, Spain – A “deadly dozen” diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday.
 
The society, based in the Bronx Zoo in the United States and which works in 60 nations, urged better monitoring of wildlife health to help give an early warning of how pathogens might spread with global warming.
It listed the “deadly dozen” as avian flu, tick-borne babesia, cholera, ebola, parasites, plague, lyme disease, red tides of algal blooms, Rift Valley fever, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis and yellow fever.

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Accu-Weather: Expect Severe Winter in US East

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Expect Severe Winter in US East 
 
US: October 9, 2008

HOUSTON – The winter of 2008-09 will be the coldest and snowiest in years in the eastern United States, threatening homeowners with back-breaking heating bills, private forecaster AccuWeather predicted on Wednesday.

“Given this economic environment, the winter will push some homeowners to the brink,” AccuWeather long-range forecaster Joe Bastardi said, noting the credit crisis and high fuel prices.
Winter elsewhere in the nation should be easier this year than last, with the Midwest getting less snow and the West being mostly warmer but possibly getting more snow, AccuWeather predicted. (Reporting by Bruce Nichols; Editing by John Picinich)

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE 

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FALSE SOLUTION: US Seen Open to Forestry Offsets in Climate Fight

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US Seen Open to Forestry Offsets in Climate Fight
 
US: October 9, 2008
 
NEW YORK – As it inches toward forming climate policy, the United States is more open to attempting to slow global warming through investments in tropical forests than the European Union is, a broker that works on forestry deals said.
 
“There’s been this kind of predisposition against forestry on the part of the EU,” Ross MacWhinney, a carbon markets analyst at energy brokers Evolution Markets LLC said at the Reuters Global Environment Summit in New York. “But I think that in the US legislators are looking at forestry as a lower-cost option.”
Clearance of forests to create farmland in developing countries emits nearly 20 percent of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change, according to the UN’s climate science panel. Trees store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide when they grow and release it when they rot or are burnt.

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