Apr 04 2014
Climate Roundup: China Petrochemical Plant Protests, Arctic Sea Ice Decline, Exxon Pipeline Revival, and House Vote on NOAA
Each week Uprising will analyze the most pressing climate change stories of the past week with our guest Kelly Mitchell, Coal Campaigner for Greenpeace.
From Reuters, “Authorities in a protest-stricken city in southern China have promised to communicate better with citizens battling plans for a chemical plant, after protesters complained that violence by law enforcement officials killed several and injured dozens.”
From the Guardian, “Arctic sea ice remained on its death spiral on Wednesday, with the amount of winter ice cover falling to its fifth lowest on the satellite record, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said…The latest findings reinforce a trend that could see the Arctic losing all of its ice cover in the summer months within decades.”
From InsideClimateNews.org, “Now it’s official: ExxonMobil plans to fully reopen its idled Pegasus oil pipeline, including the 1940s-era segment that ruptured and dumped sticky tar-like Canadian dilbit into an Arkansas neighborhood. The Monday news ends the uncertainty over the pipeline’s fate that has hung over people along the Pegasus route since the spill one year ago—though why it happened remains unknown.”
From ThinkProgress.org, “Two days after a U.N. report warned of increased famine, war, and poverty from unmitigated carbon emissions, the Republican-led House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to focus less on studying climate change, and more on predicting storms.”
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