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Lawmaker: Snowden may have had help with leaks
2013-10-04 14:15:26| InfoWorld: Top News
Edward Snowden may not have acted alone, and may have had outside assistance, when he leaked information about the U.S. National Security Agency's data collection and surveillance programs earlier this year.Snowden's access to information he shouldn't have known existed raises questions about whether he had help in collecting information about NSA programs, Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and chairman of House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday.
Second breach at Fukushima nuclear plant leaks toxic water into sea
2013-10-03 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday another tank holding highly contaminated water overflowed, probably sending the liquid into the Pacific Ocean, in the second such breach in less than two months. Recent site mishaps have returned Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, to the spotlight, calling into question its ability to execute a complex cleanup that could last decades. The company has vowed to monitor the tanks more closely and improve its water management....
How much methane leaks out during fracking?
2013-09-20 16:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: Critics of the natural gas extraction technique known as fracking have long criticized it for leaking too much methane a potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere during the extraction process. The Environmental Protection Agency recently estimated that natural gas operations emitted about 145 million metric tons of methane in 2011, making it the biggest source of these emissions in the country. Now a new study, sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and nine energy petroleum companies,...
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The Best of the IPCC Climate Report Leaks
2013-09-20 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: With 800 volunteer reviewers, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the international body that assesses the state of the science on climate change was bound to leak. The first full version of the draft report was posted online in December 2012 by a climate change skeptic who was part of the volunteer review army. Now, as the report's Sept. 27 release date nears, final drafts are circulating among journalists. This latest version of the IPCC's summary of...
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Future of Japan depends on stopping Fukushima leaks, PM tells workers
2013-09-19 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has told workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that "the future of Japan" depends on their ongoing struggle to contain leaks of highly radioactive water at the site. Abe's brief visit to the stricken plant on Thursday his second since he became prime minister last December comes weeks after he reassured the world that the situation at the facility was under control, amid reports that large quantities of contaminated water were seeping into...
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