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A Deeper Look at a Study Finding High Leak Rates From Gas Drilling

by AundreaP50 Posted on April 23, 2014

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How to Paint Citadel Miniatures: Astra Militarum – Games Workshop

The Astra Militarum is an army of regimentation and proud tradition, with soldiers drawn from across the length and breadth of the Imperium. Their uniforms and iconography reflect this strict adherence to military organisation, and whether it is the Scions of the Militarum Tempestus, the Imperial Guardsmen of Cadia or the tanks of an armoured formation, each

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White Dwarf Issue 12: 19 April 2014 – White Dwarf

It’s a hobby extravaganza this week as host of new hobby tools are released; in a special edition of Sprues And Glue we go in-depth on using them, while Paint Splatter takes an in-depth look at texture paints. You’ll also find Astra Militarum tactics, a Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey Battle Report and much more. About this Series: White Dwarf is Ga

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, “Yes,

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Cesar’s Way – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

“I rehabilitate dogs. I train people.” —Cesar Millan There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have problems? In this definitive and accessible guide, Cesar Millan—star of National Geographic Channel’s hit show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan —reveals what do

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CODEX: ASTRA MILITARUM (Enhanced Edition) – Games Workshop

The Astra Militarum are the mighty Hammer of the Emperor, an army so vast that it has never been fully recorded by the scribes of the Administratum. Drawn from a million worlds, its men and women are the thin line between Humanity and the void. On hundreds of thousands of warzones across the galaxy the armies of the Astra Militarum hold back the advance of a

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Codex: Militarum Tempestus (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Codex: Militarum Tempestus The Scions of the Militarum Tempestus are the highly skilled elite of the Astra Militarum. Trained from youth in the combat schools of the Schola Progenium, each one has been psycho-conditioned to obey without question and kill without remorse. In battle, the toughest missions fall to the Tempestus Scions. Their specialist sq

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How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend – Monks of New Skete

For nearly a quarter century, How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend has been the standard against which all other dog-training books have been measured. This new, expanded edition, with a fresh new design and new photographs throughout, preserves the best features of the original classic while bringing the book fully up-to-date. The result: the ultimate trai

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Straw Bale Gardens – Joel Karsten

You’ll find a bumper crop of vegetable gardening books on the shelves today, but it is a very rare title that actually contains new information. Straw Bale Gardens teaches gardening in a way that isn’t only new but is thoroughly innovative and revolutionary to home gardening. It solves every impediment today’s home gardeners face: bad soil, weeds, a short gr

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Codex: Astra Militarum (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

Codex: Astra Militarum The Astra Militarum are the mighty Hammer of the Emperor, an army so vast that it has never been fully recorded by the scribes of the Administratum. Drawn from a million worlds, its men and women are the thin line between Humanity and the void. On hundreds of thousands of warzones across the galaxy the armies of the Astra Militarum hol

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White Dwarf Issue 11: 12 April 2014 – White Dwarf

This issue, the Bullgryns smash into Warhammer 40,000 along with their Ogryn counterparts and the infamous bodyguard Nork Deddog, complete with painting guides in Paint Splatter. We also take the Astra Militarum out for a Battle Report: who will win, humanity’s finest defenders or the marauding Orks? About this Series: White Dwarf is Games Workshop

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A Deeper Look at a Study Finding High Leak Rates From Gas Drilling

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Watch Live: Darren Aronofsky Discusses “Noah” and Climate Change

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Watch Live: Darren Aronofsky Discusses “Noah” and Climate Change

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National Briefing | South: North Carolina: Judge Denies Shield for Duke Records

by Myrna Posted on April 4, 2014

Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway on Friday denied Duke Energy’s motion seeking to shield records in a civil suit related to groundwater pollution from 33 coal ash dumps in the state during a separate federal criminal investigation. View original article:  National Briefing | South: North Carolina: Judge Denies Shield for Duke Records ; ;Related ArticlesAnadarko Pays Billions in Settling Toxins CaseNational Briefing | Washington: E.P.A. Faulted for Failure to Report RisksSteelhead Drive Is Gone After Mudslide, Along With Many Lives Lived on It ;

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National Briefing | South: North Carolina: Judge Denies Shield for Duke Records

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Questions as More Wastewater Flows in North Carolina

by Myrna Posted on March 15, 2014

State regulators said Duke Energy, a utility already under a federal investigation for pollution, may have illegally released wastewater last week from a second site upriver of Raleigh. Continued: Questions as More Wastewater Flows in North Carolina ; ;Related ArticlesEmails Link Duke Energy and North CarolinaNational Briefing | South: North Carolina: Utilities Board Chair Is Subpoenaed in Coal Ash InquiryU.S. Agrees to Allow BP Back Into Gulf Waters to Seek Oil ;

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Questions as More Wastewater Flows in North Carolina

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Emails Link Duke Energy and North Carolina

by Myrna Posted on March 13, 2014

Emails indicate that environmental regulators consulted Duke Energy before seeking to exclude citizen activists from talks to settle charges over groundwater pollution. View original post here –  Emails Link Duke Energy and North Carolina ; ;Related ArticlesNational Briefing | South: North Carolina: Utilities Board Chair Is Subpoenaed in Coal Ash InquiryNational Briefing | West: California: Court Upholds Guidelines to Protect FishNational Briefing | Washington: Obama Adds to National Monument Land ;

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Emails Link Duke Energy and North Carolina

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These are dark days for the Arctic — literally

by VivianOcasio Posted on February 19, 2014

These are dark days for the Arctic — literally

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Things are getting gloomy up north, where the Arctic region is losing its albedo.

No, not libido — this isn’t a problem that can be fixed with ice-blue pills and adventurous nature videos. Albedo. It’s a scientific term that refers to the amount of light that the surface of the planet reflects back into space. Reflecting light away from the Earth helps keep things cool, so the loss of Arctic albedo is a major problem.

And new research has concluded that the problem is an even greater one than scientists had anticipated.

Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography used satellite measurements to discover that the region is darker than it was in the halcyon days of the late ’70s. Back then, Arctic temperatures were nearly 4 degrees F cooler on average and reflective summertime ice covered 40 percent more of the ocean than it does now. And back then, 52 percent of the sun’s rays bounced off the Arctic’s surface, while 48 percent were absorbed. By 2011, those figures had reversed — 48 percent of sunlight was being reflected away and 52 percent was being absorbed.

The drooping albedo is a consequence of climate change. And the region’s changing complexion is also accelerating the rate at which the world is warming. According to the scientists’ calculations, published in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the amount of extra energy accumulating on Earth because of declining Arctic albedo is equivalent to about a quarter of the amount of extra energy trapped here during the same period by the rise in carbon dioxide levels.

“We’re not really analyzing the subsequent increase in temperature,” Ian Eisenman, one of the authors of the paper, told Grist. “But that is an expected consequence of the increased absorption of solar energy.”

It’s not just melting snow that’s causing the top end of the Earth to darken. Eisenman said the influence of soot and other pollution settling on the snow and ice may also be important.


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Observational determination of albedo decrease caused by vanishing Arctic sea ice, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,

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5 Major Public Transit Systems (Infographic)

by JamesYarcvqloe Posted on February 1, 2014

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5 Major Public Transit Systems (Infographic)

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Illinois petcoke rules coming, but not as fast as governor wants

by TerryQnhtwe Posted on January 25, 2014

Illinois petcoke rules coming, but not as fast as governor wants

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Last month, Chicago proposed rules that would crack down on big, filthy, uncovered piles of petroleum coke , or “petcoke.” Now the state of Illinois is following suit, though its process isn’t moving along as quickly as Gov. Pat Quinn (D) had been hoping.

Residents of Chicago’s Southeast Side have been complaining for months about looming deposits of petcoke, a byproduct that piles up as refineries process growing amounts of Canadian tar-sands oil. The petcoke blows up from piles along the Calamut River and contaminates nearby homes and neighborhoods, spurring worries about health problems.

As the Associated Press reports, “Quinn proposed rules last week to require terminals that store the petcoke to immediately install dust-suppression systems and prevent storm water runoff. He also wanted operators of petcoke and coal terminals throughout Illinois to fully enclose piles within two years.” And he told the Illinois Pollution Control Board that he wanted these requirements pushed through as emergency rules.

Unsurprisingly, the companies that would like to continue lazily adding to their uncovered petcoke piles cried foul. “The Emergency Rulemaking does not meet the legal standard of ‘emergency,’” wrote attorneys for Kinder Morgan Terminals in a filing opposing the new state rules. “The Board is not permitted to bypass the regular rulemaking procedures unless a true emergency situation exists.”

This week, the pollution control board sided with the polluters. From the AP again:

An Illinois pollution panel on Thursday rejected proposed emergency rules to control piles of petroleum coke along Chicago shipping channels, saying Gov. Pat Quinn and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency failed to prove there was an imminent threat to public health and safety. …

[I]ndustry officials called Quinn’s action “regulatory overreach” because Chicago’s health department and aldermen already have proposed rules and petcoke handlers have taken steps to prevent the material from blowing around again. Plus, at least one handler already has said it’s willing to build structures to enclose its piles.

Oh, well, if a single handler claims it is willing to voluntarily enclose its nasty piles, then there’s really no emergency — and no need for any new rules. Right?


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Pollution board denies Quinn’s petcoke regulations, The Associated Press

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We export carbon emissions to China, get smog back in return

by KeiraFoulds Posted on January 21, 2014

We export carbon emissions to China, get smog back in return

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Barack Obama recently warned supporters at a fundraiser that the U.S. will be “four feet under water” if China and India start consuming energy the way Americans do, The New Yorker reports.

The comment reflects growing international angst over the swelling carbon footprints of the two developing countries — each of which is home to more than a billion people, many of them understandably eager to emulate Western lifestyles.

But in a draft report, the U.N. is reminding Western countries that the carbon footprints of developing countries are oversized in part because they are manufacturing so much of our junk for us. From The Guardian:

The world’s richest countries are increasingly outsourcing their carbon pollution to China and other rising economies, according to a draft [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report.

Outsourcing of emissions comes in the form of electronic devices such as smartphones, cheap clothes and other goods manufactured in China and other rising economies but consumed in the US and Europe. …

Much of that rise was due to the burning of coal, the report says. And much of that coal was used to power factories in China and other rising economies that produce goods for US and European consumers, the draft adds.

The heavy reliance on coal by China, India, and the like, combined with the transportation of raw materials and finished goods, actually makes the problem of global warming worse than if we had manufactured our own consumer goods.

And factories in Asia aren’t just pumping out CO2 that’s warming the whole planet. They’re also pumping out air pollutants that cause smog and make people sick, and those pollutants are coming to U.S. shores, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Here’s The New York Times on the study’s findings:

Filthy emissions from China’s export industries are carried across the Pacific Ocean and contribute to air pollution in the Western United States, according to a paper published Monday by a prominent American science journal. …

The movement of air pollutants associated with the production of goods in China for the American market has resulted in a decline in air quality in the Western United States, the scientists wrote, though less manufacturing in the United States does mean cleaner air in the American East.

Here’s more on the study from U.C. Irvine, where one of its authors is based:

Los Angeles experiences at least one extra day a year of smog that exceeds federal ozone limits because of nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide emitted by Chinese factories making goods for export, the analysis found. On other days, as much as a quarter of the sulfate pollution on the U.S. West Coast is tied to Chinese exports. All the contaminants tracked in the study are key ingredients in unhealthy smog and soot.

China is not responsible for the lion’s share of pollution in the U.S. Cars, trucks and refineries pump out far more. But powerful global winds known as “westerlies” can push airborne chemicals across the ocean in days, particularly during the spring, causing dangerous spikes in contaminants. Dust, ozone and carbon can accumulate in valleys and basins in California and other Western states.

Black carbon is a particular problem: Rain doesn’t easily wash it out of the atmosphere, so it persists across long distances. Like other air pollutants, it’s been linked to a litany of health problems, from increased asthma to cancer, emphysema, and heart and lung disease.

Karma’s a bitch.


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Going the distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama, The New Yorker
CO2 emissions are being ‘outsourced’ by rich countries to rising economies, The Guardian
China Exports Pollution to U.S., Study Finds, The New York Times
Made in China for us: Air pollution as well as exports, U.C. Irvine

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How A Toxic Disaster Area Became a Model Eco-Village

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