June 2010


Western Governors Adopt Report on Climate Adaptation Priorities

Coordination between state and federal science efforts

Submitted by: Data Basin
Jun 30, 2010

WHITEFISH, MONT., June 29, 2010 -- The Western Governors' Association has published a climate adaptation scoping report  that emphasizes the need for coordination between state and federal efforts to identify key science that is Western specific and begins to share and implement smart practices. The governors adopted the report during their Annual Meeting this week. Govs. Bill Richardson (N.M.) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Calif.) are WGA's lead governors for Climate Adaptation.  Following is their letter that accompanied the report:

When a picture is worth millions of barrels of oil

Submitted by: Kai Henifin
Jun 01, 2010
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When you hear the estimates from the Deepwater Horizon's oil spill on the news, five to nineteen thousand barrels of oil coming from the broken equipment at the seafloor each day, it's an incomprehensible quantity.

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