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9 January 2017
Winter Storm Helena finally has said goodbye, and comparatively tropical weather - above-freezing temps - is on the way.
29 June 2015
New York has banned high-volume hydraulic fracking, temporarily, but it's a start.
10 March 2015
Questions/Concerns about plans to drill for oil and gas on the Mid- and South Atlantic coasts? Bring them to the South Atlantic Offshore Drilling Forum on 12 March, at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill, NC.
For more info: www.southernenvironment.org
Southern Environmental Law Center
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The Summit
11 September 2014
21 September 2014: People's Climate March, NYC. In anticipation of the UN Climate Leadership Summit, which will begin on 23 September. The Summit was requested by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon so that international leaders could discuss plans to work together to regulate those elements that harm the environment, such as carbon emissions, on a global scale. The march will begin at 11:30am.
21 September 2014
The People's Climate March has begun! Please read: "Climate Change March Begins in New York City." Lisa W. Foderaro, 21 September 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/nyregion/new-york-city-climate-change-march.html?_r=0.
Mining
Fracking
New York has banned high-volume hydraulic fracking. According to NY's Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens, "High-volume hydraulic fracturing poses significant adverse impacts to land, air, water, natural resoources and potential significant public health impacts that cannot be adequately mitigated. This decision is consistent with DEC's mission to conserve, improve and protect our state's natural resources, and to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state." this ban is not permanent, but it's a start.
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Mining
Offshore Oil
17 April 2015
The Interior Department plans to begin leasing areas of the Atlantic at least 50 miles off the shores of VA, NC, SC, and GA to interested oil drilling companies beginning in 2021. The 50-mile buffer was created to protect shoreline areas, many fragile, two areas in particular being the two largest estuaries in the country, the Chesapeake Bay and the Albemarle-Pamlico Sounds. Debates about whether there should be offshore drilling in this area at all have been going on for at least 30 years. Now it seems the green light's been turned on, with that orange-light 50-mile buffer.
According to the Interior Department, the buffer's 50-mile width was set in place in order to "minimize multiple use conflicts, such as those from the Department of Defense, NASA activities, renewable energy activities, commercial and recreational fishing, critical habitat needs for wildlife and other environmental concerns."
But plenty of citizens are saying that no buffer is wide enough and there should be absolutely no offshore drilling in the Atlantic.
Keep working on those "renewable energy activities," everybody. Act fast, save a dolphin. Save a way of life.
1 March 2015
The Department of the Interior has announced plans to open up the Mid- and South Atlantic coasts to mining for oil and gas, maybe starting in 2017. In 2014, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has decided to conduct seismic surveys along the Atlantic coast. People are concerned about the harm air guns used to conduct these surveys can cause to marine mammals and other marine life, and about the potential damage that drilling for offshore oil could cause.
The floor for discussion will be open on 12 March 2015, at the William and Ida Friday Center for Education in Chapel Hill, NC.
For more information, please visit the Southern Environmental Law Center site at www.southernenvironment.org
BOEM has "mitigation measures" for seismic surveys with marine mammals in mind: www.boem.gov/2012-JOINT-G02/ It expired 31 December 2014 and was written for a Gulf Coast survey, but it gives a general idea.
Coal Ash
1 May 2016
Here's something else tied up in red tape. Nobody wants the coal ash, and who can blame anybody, right? Now some people are wondering if maybe they can keep the ash where it is and reclassify it. Sometimes 2+2=4 no matter how hard you try to recalculate it, or run from it. No dice, baby. It is what it is. Recycle it, and take the time to create the correct facilities for the ash that can't be recycled.
17 April 2015
"How will you handle that new coal ash slime?"
www.npr.org/2015/03/18/393672334/after-toxic-ash-spill-energy-company-and-locals-struggle-over-solution (Dave Dewitt)
Hurricanes
Storms are named when wind speeds reach 39mph.
Tropical Depression < 39mph
Tropical Storm 39-73mph
Category 1 74-95mph
Category 2 96-110mph
Category 3 111-129mph
Category 4 130-156mph
Category 5 157+ mph
After the "W" the storms are named according to the Greek alphabet.
Water
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Blizzard of March 1960
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Winter Storms 2017-2018
Fracking
Governor Cuomo and the State of New York have decided to ban fracking. ... so who's next? ... anyone... anyone...
New York has banned high-volume hydraulic fracking. According to NY's Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens, "High-volume hydraulic fracturing poses significant adverse impacts to land, air, water, natural resoources and potential significant public health impacts that cannot be adequately mitigated. This decision is consistent with DEC's mission to conserve, improve and protect our state's natural resources, and to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state." this ban is not permanent, but it's a start.
