The head of a Toronto company explains why it had a train haul biodiesel back and forth over the United States border in 2010 without unloading it: to make several million dollars generating renewable energy credits under the Environmental Protection Agency?s green fuels program. [CBC]
Erie and Ontario are the most threatened of the five Great Lakes, while Lake Superior remains in the best health, a team of American and Canadian scientists reports. The researchers collected data for three years and analyzed 34 stressors to the lakes, the world?s largest supply of fresh water, including zebra mussels, toxins, light pollution and more. The study suggests that any restoration effect must address multiple threats, not just one. [The Cleveland Dealer]
A gas industry group sues a Colorado city to overturn a local voter-approved ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract oil and gas from sand and shale formations. [Bloomberg News]
It?s that time again: the Audubon Society?s annual Christmas Bird Count is under way. [Audubon Society]
Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/on-our-radar-the-train-to-nowhere/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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