Search Ends for Missing Oil Workers
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: April 22, 2010
Summary: The Coast Guard called off its search Friday for 11 oil rig workers who had been missing since an explosion on the rig Tuesday night in the Gulf of Mexico. They thought that the workers may have been very close to the explosion.
Response: This is sad for the families, and unfortunate that such a tragic event occured because our need for fossil fuels.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
4/25/10
State Decision Blocks Drilling for Gas in Catskills
By MIREYA NAVARRO
Published: April 23, 2010
summary: New York State environmental officials announced on Friday that they would impose far stricter regulations on a controversial type of natural gas drilling in the upstate area that supplies most of New York City’s drinking water, making it highly unlikely that any drilling would be done there.
response: This is good because damaging ground water could be really bad and there are so many people in NYC that it could cause huge problems.
By MIREYA NAVARRO
Published: April 23, 2010
summary: New York State environmental officials announced on Friday that they would impose far stricter regulations on a controversial type of natural gas drilling in the upstate area that supplies most of New York City’s drinking water, making it highly unlikely that any drilling would be done there.
response: This is good because damaging ground water could be really bad and there are so many people in NYC that it could cause huge problems.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
4-18-10
Florida: A Bad Winter for Slithering
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 16, 2010
Summary:An unseasonably cold winter may have taken care of what python hunters could not. Not one python has been caught since the state started allowing hunters to track them on state-managed lands around the Everglades. The season started March 8 and ends Saturday. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says cold weather may have killed up to 50 percent of the state’s pythons.
Response: The overpopuation of snakes could be dangerous so the fact that the numbers are dwindiling is a good thing.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 16, 2010
Summary:An unseasonably cold winter may have taken care of what python hunters could not. Not one python has been caught since the state started allowing hunters to track them on state-managed lands around the Everglades. The season started March 8 and ends Saturday. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says cold weather may have killed up to 50 percent of the state’s pythons.
Response: The overpopuation of snakes could be dangerous so the fact that the numbers are dwindiling is a good thing.
4-18-10
U.S. Leads New Bid to Phase Out Whale Hunting
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: April 14, 2010
Summary:The United States is leading an effort by a handful of antiwhaling nations to broker an agreement that would limit and ultimately end whale hunting by Japan, Norway and Iceland, according to people involved with the negotiations.
Response: Protecting whales is important and stopping hunting of themselves is a good thing.
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: April 14, 2010
Summary:The United States is leading an effort by a handful of antiwhaling nations to broker an agreement that would limit and ultimately end whale hunting by Japan, Norway and Iceland, according to people involved with the negotiations.
Response: Protecting whales is important and stopping hunting of themselves is a good thing.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
4/1/10
E.P.A. Delays Plants’ Pollution Permits
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: March 29, 2010
Summary:The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January.
Response : I wish they would have passed this because it is dangrous and needs to be monitored.
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: March 29, 2010
Summary:The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January.
Response : I wish they would have passed this because it is dangrous and needs to be monitored.
4-1-10
Among Weathercasters, Doubt on Warming
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: March 29, 2010
Summary:The debate over global warming has created predictable adversaries, pitting environmentalists against industry and coal-state Democrats against coastal liberal.
But it has also created tensions between two groups that might be expected to agree on the issue: climate scientists and meteorologists, especially those who serve as television weather forecasters.
Response: Global warming has caused huge problems all over. Nobody can seem to agree and I just wish there was someway to know the truth.
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: March 29, 2010
Summary:The debate over global warming has created predictable adversaries, pitting environmentalists against industry and coal-state Democrats against coastal liberal.
But it has also created tensions between two groups that might be expected to agree on the issue: climate scientists and meteorologists, especially those who serve as television weather forecasters.
Response: Global warming has caused huge problems all over. Nobody can seem to agree and I just wish there was someway to know the truth.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)