Hurricane Irene Begins Lashing East Coast With Rain

Friday, August 26, 2011 Hurricane Irene Begins Lashing East Coast With Rain NAGS HEAD, N.C. — Hurricane Irene began lashing the East Coast with rain Friday ahead of a weekend of violent weather that was almost certain to heap punishment on a vast stretch of shoreline from the Carolinas to Massachusetts. Oklahoma Family Fights Keystone Pipeline And Wins NRC Chairman Targeted By GOP Senators Over Japan Crisis Comments ConocoPhillips Finds New Oil Seeps In China's Bohai Bay Motion To Bar Montana, Idaho Wolf Hunts Denied Diamond Planet Discovered By Astronomers BLOG POSTS Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Nuclear Safety and the East Coast Earthquake Nuclear has a future in our country's energy mix, but we must ensure that our domestic plants are designed to both endure the threats we can foresee and respond to scenarios we never imagined, like this weeks East coast earthquake. Dennis Takahashi-Kelso: Are We Really Ready to Expose Our Arctic Waters to the Threat of a Major Oil Spill? The icy waters north of Alaska are home to polar bears, walruses and whales; it's a fragile environment, and our understanding of this unique marine ecosystem is not well developed. Rocky Kistner: Gulf Protesters: Don't Send Us Your Dirty Tar Sands Oil Too The Gulf and the dirty tar sands region of western Canada share a common story. Politicians everywhere pay more attention to the oil company dollars stuffed in their pockets than the health and welfare of constituents and future generations. Bill Chameides: All Shook Up on the East Coast We just had an East Coast quake of 5.8 and these plants are designed to withstand quakes of a mere few tenths magnitude larger. Is that a safe margin? David Suzuki: Learning the Value of Respect on Haida Gwaii One of the first lessons I learned from First Nations communities was about the importance of respect. Without respect for each other, we don't listen and we fail to learn. But respect should extend beyond our fellow humans, to all the green things that capture the sun's energy and power the rest of life on Earth.

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