For Oil Sands Project, a Step Forward - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A pipeline that would carry crude oil extracted from Canadian tar sand fields to refineries in Texas has edged a bit closer to approval with the State Department’s release of a draft environmental-impact statement this month. It concluded that the project’s construction and operation would have “limited adverse environmental impacts.”

Emergency aid for big freeze sheep death toll | Scotland

Farmers to receive £200,000 to deal with disposing bodies of estimated 15,000 sheep killed in worst winter in 50 years.

Obama's Curious Climate Strategy | Mother Jones

Will Obama's political calculation pay off at the eleventh hour? With the clock running out, we'll soon know the answer.

[According to the Precautionary Principle, is it OK to run over a few extra blind people if the "payoff" is a tiny chance of slightly less nice weather?]

Quiet electrics and hybrids “could potentially put pedestrians at risk, especially blind pedestrians,” NHTSA Chief David Strickland told the Society of Automotive Engineers' annual convention in Detroit Thursday.

“Strickland said that data from 12 states shows that hybrid electric vehicles do have a significantly higher incidence rate of pedestrian crashes than internal combustion engines for certain maneuvers — like slowing or stopping, backing up, entering or leaving a parking space, and making a turn.”