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Code Quiz: Adjustment Factors for Bare or Covered Conductors

2016-06-16 16:12:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Where bare or covered conductors are installed with insulated conductors, the temperature rating of the bare or covered conductors shall be equal to read more

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Whistleblower Says EPA Officials Covered Up Toxic Fracking Methane Emissions for Years

2016-06-10 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Why has the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to take adequate action against disastrous, climate-warming methane emissions from the fracking industry? An environmental watchdog alleges that the answer may be a years-long, systematic cover-up of the true data surrounding these toxic emissions. That cover-up, the group says, was at the hands of at least one EPA researcher who accepted payments from the oil and gas industry. In an incendiary federal complaint filed on Wednesday...

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Australia covered up UN climate change fears for Tasmania forests and Kakadu

2016-05-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A draft UN report on climate change which was scrubbed of all reference to Australia over fears it could deter visitors to the Great Barrier Reef, also outlined possible threats to the Tasmania wilderness and Kakadu. The draft report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef, which described climate change as the biggest long-term threat to the [reef] today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy. It concluded that without a comprehensive response...

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