Climate Change Brings Water Woes To U.S. Cities

Thursday, July 28, 2011 Climate Change Brings Water Woes To U.S. Cities, Report Finds You might say that the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had good timing with their Tuesday release of a new report on water-related impacts of climate change in U.S. cities. Extreme heat had just scorched much of the country, and the South remained under extreme drought. Perhaps Americans were ready to listen? WATCH: Tim DeChristopher Talks Jail, Family Reactions What Is This?! (PHOTO) Climate Change And Forest Fires Linked In New Study Arkansas Commission Votes To Shut Down Natural Gas Wells Massey Energy Settles West Virginia Coal Slurry Case BLOG POSTS Robert Stavins: A Golden Opportunity to Please Conservatives and Liberals Alike Market-based approaches to environmental protection should be lauded, not condemned, by political leaders, no matter what their party affiliation. Otherwise, there will be severe and perverse long-term consequences for the economy. Jay Michaelson: Why Liberals Should Be Outraged by the Tim DeChristopher Sentence DeChristopher's act was definitely a crime. A victimless crime, and an act of civil disobedience, but a crime nonetheless. The guilty verdict, delivered on March 3, was expected. But the auction itself was also a crime. Jeff Biggers: Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice. Gene Karpinski: Upping the Ante This energy and environment spending bill contains more than three dozen anti-environment policy measures that have absolutely no place in a budget measure. Wendy Gordon: Birds and Tar Sands Oil Don't Mix A current action is about protecting one of the world's most important nesting grounds for migratory birds -- the Peace-Athabasca Delta in Canada. The Delta is downstream from the world's largest industrial project -- Alberta's tar sands oil mines.

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