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Wavering Dem Climate Bill Support Could Mean 2010 Signing
Environmental Leader — June 12, 2009 Wavering Dem Climate Bill Support Could Mean 2010 Signing climate2 Just a week ago climate legislation was said to be on the fast-track , with it set to come to a House vote within a month. But now even some Democrats appear to be threatening to derail the legislation, with some saying passage won’t come until next year. Such a delay may also mean that the successor to the Kyoto Agreement may not be negotiated until next year, reports Reuters. The measure is scheduled to be negotiated in December in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the U.S., farm states are gaining support for their contention that any climate legislation should have special exclusions for the ...

Energy and Environmental News for June 12th 2009: nuclear disaster avoided by pure chance; Partnership develops first deep-sea floating turbine
Climate Progress — Top Story Sizewell nuclear disaster averted by dirty laundry, says official report A nuclear leak, which could have caused a major disaster, was only averted by a chance decision to wash some dirty clothes, according to a newly obtained official report. On the morning of Sunday 7 January 2007, one of the contractors working on decommissioning the Sizewell A nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast was in the laundry room when he noticed cooling water leaking on to the floor from the pond that holds the reactor’s highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. As much as 40,000 gallons of radioactive water ...