The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to rule soon on whether to allow a car ferry called the Badger to continue to dump ash into Lake Michigan. It?s the last coal-fired steamship operating in American waters. [Associated Press]
Students from over 70 schools gather at Swarthmore College to confer on strategies for persuading their institutions to divest of their shares in fossil fuel companies. The authorities at Swathmore are not enamored of the idea, the college?s board chairman says, although they do want to take steps to help arrest global warming. [French Tribune]
The across-the-board federal spending cuts scheduled to go into effect on Friday are likely to cause further delays in weather and climate satellite programs, potentially reducing the government?s ability to issue accurate early warnings of extreme weather. [Climate Central]
Bad news for minnows: giant nonnative goldfish have invaded Lake Tahoe, seemingly damaging the habitat of small native fish. [University of Nevada, Reno]
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