{"id":11497,"date":"2016-01-07T13:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11497"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:23:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:23:36","slug":"green-news-report-january-7-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11497","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green News Report&#8217; &#8211; January 7, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center; background-color:#f3fdf4; padding:10px 5px 4px 5px; line-height:20px; background-image:url('\/Images\/GradientDarkGreen_headline.jpg'); background-repeat:repeat-y;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/GNR_WhileWeWereOut_2016.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:10px auto;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;<\/i><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNewsReport.bsky.social\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Bluesky-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenNewsReport\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Twitter-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Facebook-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/journa.host\/@GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Mastodon-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman\/id788236916\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Apple Podcasts' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/itunes-listen-on-apple-podcast-logo-png.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman-desi-doyen\/PC:1000011151\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Pandora' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-Pandora-badge.png'><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-green-news-report-w-brad-f-30973644\/\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on iHeart' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-IHeartRadio.png'><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Green-News-Report-Friedman-Doyen\/dp\/B08JJRX3TP\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Amazon Music' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/AmazonMusic-badge_690.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Green-News-Report-p477566\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on TuneIn' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/ListenOnTuneIn.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/GNR\/feed.xml\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='RSS\/XML Feed' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/RSS-XML-Feed.png\"><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px; display:block; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0;\"><i>(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>IN TODAY&#8217;S RADIO REPORT:<\/strong> Britain&#8217;s new flood defenses already overwhelmed; Record extreme weather over the holidays turbocharged by El Nino and climate change; State of emergency for Flint, MI water crisis; State of emergency for massive CA natural gas leak; <i>PLUS<\/i>: TransCanada sues Obama over Keystone XL pipeline rejection&#8230; All that and more in today&#8217;s Green News Report!<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<center><strong><em>Please help us connect the climate change dots over your public airwaves!<\/em><\/strong>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10376\"><b><i>PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DONATE!<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/center>\n--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Listen online here, or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/GNR_010716.mp3\"><i>Download MP3<\/i><\/a> <i>(6 mins)&#8230;<\/i><script language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/audio-player.js\"><\/script><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer1\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/player.swf\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=1&amp;bg=0xf8f8f8&amp;leftbg=0x5ADA04&amp;lefticon=0x666666&amp;rightbg=0x2F7B02&amp;rightbghover=0xD4F907&amp;righticon=0xFFFF7C&amp;righticonhover=0x2F7B02&amp;text=0x07400B&amp;slider=0x2F42F7&amp;track=0xFFFFFF&amp;border=0x666666&amp;loader=0xD4F907&amp;loop=no&amp;autostart=no&amp;soundFile=https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/GNR_010716.mp3\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/object><\/p>\n<table style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 13px;\">\n<tr>\n<td>\nLink:<\/td>\n<td><input style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\" size=\"45\" value=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11497\" onClick=\"javascript:this.select();\" onChange=\"javascript:this.value='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11497\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Embed:<\/td>\n<td><input style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\" size=\"45\" value=\"&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px; background: url('https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/GNR_EmbedGraphic.png') top left no-repeat;width:400px;height:120px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding-left:80px;padding-top:5px;font-family:times new roman, times, serif;font-size:12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;'Green News Report' w\/ Brad Friedman &#038; Desi Doyen&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;i&gt;January 7,2016&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/player.swf&quot;  height=&quot;24&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; type=&quot;application\/x-shockwave-flash&quot;  pluginspage=&quot;http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer&quot;  flashvars=&quot;bg=0xf8f8f8&amp;leftbg=0x5ADA04&amp;lefticon=0x666666&amp;rightbg=0x2F7B02&amp;rightbghover=0xD4F907&amp;righticon=0xFFFF7C&amp;righticonhover=0x2F7B02&amp;text=0x07400B&amp;slider=0x2F42F7&amp;track=0xFFFFFF&amp;border=0x666666&amp;loader=0xD4F907&amp;loop=no&amp;autostart=no&amp;soundFile=https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/GNR_010716.mp3&quot; scale=&quot;showall&quot; name=&quot;index&quot; \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;Click to listen (or &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/GNR_010716.mp3&quot;&gt;download&lt;\/a&gt;)&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;i&gt;More info on today's report &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11497&quot;&gt;here...&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" onClick=\"javascript:this.select();\" onChange=\"javascript:this.value=''\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail?  Drop us a line at <a href=\"mailto:GreenNews@BradBlog.com\">GreenNews@BradBlog.com<\/a> or right here at the comments link below. All GNRs are always archived at <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\">GreenNews.BradBlog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN &#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/strong> (<em>see links below<\/em>): Italian Mob&#8217;s Toxic Waste Dumping Is Giving People Cancer; EPA Says Pesticide Harms Bees In Some Cases; Oil Prices Decline More Than 5 Percent as Stockpiles Increase; U.S. Wildfires Burned Record Area In 2015: Agriculture Department; U.S. Issues New Dietary Guidelines That Will Change The Way You Eat; FDA Just Banned These Chemicals in Food. Are They the Tip of Iceberg?; The Lawyer Who Became DuPont&#8217;s Worst Nightmare&#8230; <i>PLUS:<\/i> British Coal, the End of a Mining Industry&#8230; and much, <i>MUCH<\/i> more! &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><b>STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY&#8217;S &#8216;GREEN NEWS REPORT&#8217;&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2016\/01\/05\/bernie-sanders-mocks-donald-trumps-contention-that-the-chinese-created-climate-change\/\"><b>Sanders Mocks Trump&#8217;s Contention That Chinese Created Climate Change<\/b><\/a> (Washington Post):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who&#8217;s repeatedly accused Donald Trump of being a divisive &#8220;demagogue,&#8221;\u009d opened a new line of attack Monday night on the Republican front-runner: lampooning his views on climate change.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/december-heat-boosts-2015-to-2nd-warmest-year-in-u-s-history1\/\"><b>December Heat Boosts 2015 to 2nd Warmest Year in U.S. History: 2015 will likely be the hottest year on record globally<\/b><\/a> (Scientific American):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">That second-place finish comes as both NOAA and NASA are expected to announce that the year was the hottest on record globally. While that record heat was helped in part by one of the strongest El Ninos on record, it was mainly due to the contributions of manmade global warming, scientists have said.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Former NY Gov. George Pataki Exits 2016 Race:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2015-12-30\/george-pataki-quits-the-presidential-race\"><b>George Pataki Quits Presidential Race<\/b><\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"It's Official: None Of The Remaining Major GOP Candidates Accept Climate Science\"><b>It&#8217;s Official: None Of The Remaining Major GOP Candidates Accept Climate Science<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>TransCanada Sues Obama Admin Under NAFTA:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/07\/business\/international\/transcanada-to-sue-us-for-blocking-keystone-xl-pipeline.html\"><b>TransCanada to Sue U.S. for Blocking Keystone XL Pipeline<\/b><\/a> (NY Times) [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The company is taking the unusual step of suing through the North American Free Trade Agreement, calling the decision &#8220;arbitrary and unjustified.&#8221; The Canadian business also filed a lawsuit in Houston asking that the decision be overturned. &#8220;TransCanada has been <b>unjustly deprived of the value of its multibillion-dollar investment<\/b> by the U.S. administration&#8217;s action,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2016\/01\/06\/3736750\/transcanada-sues-using-nafta\/\"><b>TransCanada Announces It Will Sue U.S. Over Keystone XL Denial<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">In the notice to submit a claim for arbitration, TransCanada notes that two previous pipelines, carrying oil from the same tar sands region across the U.S. border, were both approved. This, TransCanada claims, suggests that the denial was political in nature, which is prohibited under NAFTA.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Flint, MI: State of Emergency Over Water Contamination Crisis:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/597755\/how-michigan-literally-poisoned-entire-city-save-few-bucks\"><b>How Michigan literally poisoned an entire city to save a few bucks<\/b><\/a> (The Week):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Why on Earth did they do this? Austerity. Aside from the obvious humanitarian disaster, this is a stark demonstration of austerity&#8217;s false economy. Trying to be cheap on Flint&#8217;s water supply will end up costing the state of Michigan (and probably the country as a whole) a ton more money than it would have to fix it properly in the first place.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/midwest\/ct-flint-lead-water-20160105-story.html\"><b>Michigan governor declares emergency in Flint over lead in drinking water<\/b><\/a> (Chicago Tribune):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Last week, Snyder apologized and Michigan&#8217;s top environmental regulator resigned after a task force created by Snyder blamed problems on his agency. Administration officials have pledged to cooperate fully with any federal requests.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/flint-michigan-water-lead_568be5abe4b014efe0dbb159\"><b>Justice Department Investigating Toxic Tap Water In Flint: High lead levels in Flint&#8217;s water could have harmed thousands of city kids.<\/b><\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/nancy-kaffer\/2016\/01\/05\/snyder-flint-water\/78068836\/\"><b>Apology, resignations over Flint are good first steps<\/b><\/a> (Detroit Free Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>U.S. Sues Volkswagen Over Emissions Cheating Scandal:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2016\/01\/us-sues-volkswagen-over-defeat-device-scandal\/\"><b>U.S. Sues Volkswagen Over Emissions Cheating Scandal:<\/b><\/a> (Ars Technica)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-volkswagen-emissions-lawsuit-20160104-story.html\"><b>U.S. government sues Volkswagen over cheating on emissions tests<\/b><\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/dieselgate-could-cost-volkswagen-48-billion-in-the-us-alone\/\"><b>Dieselgate could cost Volkswagen $48 billion in the US alone: Much of that dollar figure comes from fines applied to each diesel vehicle equipped with a defeat device.<\/b><\/a> (CNET)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Los Angeles: State of Emergency Over Massive Gas Leak:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch-6405804\"><b>In-Depth: What Went Wrong at Porter Ranch?<\/b><\/a> (LA Weekly) [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">&#8220;<b>We removed that valve in 1979<\/b>,&#8221; he said. He pointed out that the valve was old at that time and leaking. It also was not easy to find a new part, so the company opted not to replace it. If SS-25 were a &#8220;critical&#8221; well &#8220;\u201d that is, one within 100 feet of a road or a park, or within 300 feet of a home &#8220;\u201d then a safety valve would be required. But <b>it was not a critical well, so it was not required<\/b>. &#8220;Now there&#8217;s definitely going to be a push for changing the regulations,&#8221; Anderle said, when told of the missing valve. &#8220;You get rid of a safety valve because it wasn&#8217;t working? A safety valve would have shut the damn well down! They&#8217;re in a bunch of trouble.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/dangerous-methane-leak-requires-emergency-measures\/\"><b>Dangerous Methane Leak Requires Emergency Measures: California&#8217;s governor orders new rules to deal with an ongoing massive leak<\/b><\/a> (Scientific American):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Brown told ARB that, working with other state agencies, it must develop a program &#8220;to fully mitigate the leak&#8217;s emissions of methane&#8221;\u009d by March 31. The program should be funded by Southern California Gas Co., will be limited to projects in California and must prioritize efforts that reduce short-lived climate pollutants.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/attorneys-claim-greed-was-a-factor-in-the-socalgas-leak-in-porter-ranch-6447370\"><b>Attorneys Claim Greed Was a Factor in the SoCalGas Leak in Porter Ranch<\/b><\/a> (LA Weekly)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/gov-brown-cracks-down-on-gas-company-following-porter-ranch-disaster-6452684\"><b>Gov. Brown Cracks Down on Gas Company Following Porter Ranch Disaster<\/b><\/a> (LA Weekly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>U.K.&#8217;s New Flood Defenses Already Overwhelmed:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/dec\/28\/uk-floods-costs-financial-ruin\"><b>VIDEO: Cost of UK floods tops \u00a35bn, with thousands facing financial ruin<\/b><\/a> (Guardian UK)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-35196046\"><b>Floods unleash unprecedented criticism<\/b><\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1616989\/december-2015-the-wettest-since-records-began\"><b>December 2015 The Wettest Since Records Began<\/b><\/a> (Sky News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-35246752\"><b>Farmers in England could be paid to let land flood &#8211; BBC News<\/b><\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-35245314\"><b>Environment Agency bosses defend flooding response<\/b><\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Climate Change &#8216;Supercharging&#8217; El Nino, Extreme Weather:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc-news\/watch\/nasa-warns-el-nino-may-cause-weather-chaos-594555459950\"><b>VIDEO: Dr. Michael Mann on Climate Change, El Nino<\/b><\/a> (MSNBC),\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/12\/26\/3735055\/christmas-heat-records-shattered\/\"><b>This Christmas Shattered Heat Records<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weather.blog.statesman.com\/2016\/01\/05\/watch-nasa-warns-el-nino-to-get-worse-in-2016\/\"><b>Watch: NASA warns El Ni\u00e0\u00b1o to get worse in 2016<\/b><\/a> (Austin American-Statesman)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v4\/n2\/full\/nclimate2100.html\"><b>Increasing frequency of extreme El Ni\u00e0\u00b1o events due to greenhouse warming<\/b><\/a> (Nature),\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/wild-december-pushes-us-weather-in-2015-to-near-records\/364517521\/\"><b>Weather officials say 2015 was near record hot and wet in US; climate change, El Nino blamed<\/b><\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/environment\/climate-change\/el-nio-effect-leads-to-2015-being-worlds-hottest-year-ever-and-australias-fifth-warmest\/news-story\/eea7cc225ba8092a88811e2d09ad5d53\"><b>El Ni\u00e0\u00b1o effect leads to 2015 being world&#8217;s hottest year ever and Australia&#8217;s fifth warmest<\/b><\/a> (News.AU)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/06\/us\/in-west-texas-hundreds-of-dairy-cows-killed-by-blizzard.html?ref=energy-environment&#038;_r=0\"><b>Blizzard Buried Some Dairy Cows in the Snow; 35,000 Die<\/b><\/a> (NY Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">After a mild and dry Christmas Day, a fierce blizzard whipped across the rolling plains of West Texas and eastern New Mexico. The wind blew mercilessly for 48 hours, leaving snow drifts as high as 14 feet.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>&#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/i> (Stuff we didn&#8217;t have time for in today&#8217;s audio report)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalpress.com\/Research\/20160106\/epa-says-pesticide-harms-bees-in-some-cases\"><b>EPA Says Pesticide Harms Bees In Some Cases<\/b><\/a> (AP):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">A major pesticide harms honeybees when used on cotton and citrus but not on other big crops like corn, berries and tobacco, the Environmental Protection Agency found.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/07\/business\/energy-environment\/oil-prices-decline-more-than-5-percent-as-stockpiles-increase.html?login=email&#038;ref=energy-environment&#038;mtrref=www.nytimes.com&#038;_r=0\"><b>Oil Prices Decline More Than 5 Percent as Stockpiles Increase<\/b><\/a> (NY Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Oil prices plunged again on Wednesday by more than 5 percent as investors paid more attention to signs that global stockpiles are growing than to increasing instability in the Middle East and North Africa.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-wildfires-idUSKBN0UL00D20160107\"><b>U.S. Wildfires Burned Record Area In 2015: Agriculture Department<\/b><\/a> (Reuters):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">U.S. wildfires burned a record 10.1 million acres (4.09 million hectares) in 2015 and the Forest Service spent 52 percent of its budget fighting fires, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-dietary-guidelines-eggs-coffee-20160107-story.html\"><b>U.S. Issues New Dietary Guidelines That Will Change The Way You Eat<\/b><\/a> (LA Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">In the first slate of nutritional recommendations it has issued since 2011, the federal government on Thursday gave health-conscious Americans the go-ahead to eat eggs and others foods rich in cholesterol, to drink as many as five cups of coffee daily, and to enjoy a range of fats long avoided by many.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/civileats.com\/2016\/01\/06\/the-fda-just-banned-these-chemicals-in-food-are-they-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-pfcs\/\"><b>FDA Just Banned These Chemicals in Food. Are They the Tip of Iceberg?<\/b><\/a> (Civil Eats):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">FDA banned three toxic food packaging chemicals and is considering banning seven cancer-causing food flavoring chemicals, but food safety advocates say the process highlights flaws in the system.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/10\/magazine\/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html?login=email&#038;mtrref=query.nytimes.com\"><b>The Lawyer Who Became DuPont&#8217;s Worst Nightmare<\/b><\/a> (NY Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then he took on an environmental suit that would upend his entire career &#8220;\u201d and expose a brazen, decades-long history of chemical pollution.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/inpictures\/2015\/12\/british-coal-mining-industry-151230111353282.html\"><b>British Coal, the End of a Mining Industry<\/b><\/a> (Al Jazeera):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Yorkshire, United Kingdom &#8211; Coal miners at Yorkshire&#8217;s Kellingley Colliery, the only remaining deep-pit coal mine in Britain, worked their last shift on Friday December 18, bringing to an end hundreds of years of underground coal mining in the UK.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/consumers-meat-origin-us-ends-labeling-law-36075758\"><b>Consumers Won&#8217;t Know Meat Origin After US Ends Labeling Law<\/b><\/a> (ABC News):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">It&#8217;s now harder to find out where your beef or pork was born, raised and slaughtered. After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a labeling law last month that required retailers to include the animal&#8217;s country of origin on packages of red meat. It&#8217;s a major victory for the meat industry, which had fought the law in Congress and the courts since the early 2000s.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-italian-mobs-toxic-waste-dumping-is-giving-people-cancer\"><b>The Italian Mob&#8217;s Toxic Waste Dumping Is Giving People Cancer<\/b><\/a> (Motherboard):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Never really known as a friendly group, the Italian mafia has been brutally murdering people for hundreds of years. Most of the time, these killings are quick&#8221;\u201dsome henchmen waylay the target, squeeze a trigger a few times and make their getaway. Yet according to a new report released last week by the Italian National Institute of Health, a few local Italian mobs have been slowly killing dozens of innocent people for decades by way of a multibillion dollar toxic waste disposal racket.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/graphics.latimes.com\/oil-operations\/\"><b>Big Oil Braced for Global Warming While It Fought Regulations<\/b><\/a> (LA Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York Times and Washington Post.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE on Climate Science and Climate Change, go to our<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?page_id=10012\"><strong><i>Green News Report: Essential Background Page<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skepticalscience.com\"><b>Skeptical Science: Database with FULL DEBUNKING of ALL Climate Science Denier Myths<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3034316\/4-scenarios-show-what-climate-change-will-do-to-the-earth-from-pretty-bad-to-disaster#1\"><b>4 Scenarios Show What Climate Change Will Do To The Earth, From Pretty Bad To Disaster<\/b><\/a> (Fast CoExist):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">But exactly how bad is still an open question, and a lot depends not only on how we react, but how quickly. The rate at which humans cut down on greenhouse gas emissions&#8211;if we do choose to cut them&#8211;will have a large bearing on how the world turns out by 2100, the forecasts reveal.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-to-solve-global-warming-its-the-energy-supply\/\"><b>How to Solve Global Warming: It&#8217;s the Energy Supply<\/b><\/a> (Scientific American):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Restraining global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius will require <b>changing how the world produces and uses energy to power its cities and factories, heats and cools buildings, as well as moves people and goods in airplanes, trains, cars, ships and trucks<\/b>, according to the IPCC. Changes are required not just in technology, but also in people&#8217;s behavior.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/apocalypse-now-climate-change-is-going-to-kick-our-asses\/\"><b>Warning: Even in the best-case scenario, climate change will kick our asses<\/b><\/a> (Grist)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>NASA Video: Warming over the last 130 years, and into the next 100 years:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10167\"><b>Video Proof That Global Warming is a &#8216;Hoax&#8217;!: NASA Temperature Data 1888-2011<\/b><\/a> (The BRAD BLOG):<\/li>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EoOrtvYTKeE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=39cBqY1sszY&#038;feature=c4-overview&#038;list=UUAY-SMFNfynqz1bdoaV8BeQ\"><b>NASA climate change video: This is the U.S. in 2100<\/b><\/a> (NASA).<\/li>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39cBqY1sszY?list=UUAY-SMFNfynqz1bdoaV8BeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.) IN TODAY&#8217;S RADIO REPORT: Britain&#8217;s new flood defenses already overwhelmed; Record extreme weather over the holidays turbocharged by El Nino and climate change; State of emergency for Flint, MI water crisis; State of emergency for massive CA natural gas leak; PLUS: TransCanada sues Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,21,500,543,223,594,200,451,548,407,656,619,616,498,540,300,617,795,736],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-california","category-canada","category-climate-change","category-dept-of-justice","category-election-2016","category-environment","category-epa","category-extreme-weather","category-green-news","category-jerry-brown","category-keystone-xl","category-nafta","category-natural-gas","category-oil","category-republicans","category-tpp","category-volkswagen","category-water"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11497"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}