NY Times kills its environmental blog, "Green," to "devote resources elsewhere."

There are no news blogs left on the roster that even touch on the environment, though Andrew Revkin’s delightfully peripatetic personal blog, “Dot Earth,” lives on in the opinion section—at least until Jill Abramson and co. decide that environmental opinions, like environmental news, would best be distributed across opinion columns devoted primarily to other, more salable topics.

Epa: If air chief loves a brawl, she's come to the right place -- 11/13/2009 -- www.eenews.net

McCarthy studied social anthropology as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She went to Tufts University for graduate work, receiving joint degrees in science and environmental health engineering and planning and policy.

Brazil’s Carnival now runs on pee | Grist

This is how it works: People pee. The pee flows over turbines, as it might in a hydroelectric plant.

Republicans press Obama EPA nominee on transparency issues | The Daily Caller

Congressional Republicans are already pressing Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s pick for the agency’s new administrator, on the EPA’s use of secret data to formulate air quality rules.

“EPA has continually refused to make public the basic scientific data underlying virtually all of the Agency’s claimed benefits from new Clean Air Act (CAA) rules,” wrote Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith and Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter in a letter to McCarthy. “Everyone agrees on the importance of clean air, but EPA needs to release the secret data they use in formulating new rules.”

Ethiopian Droughts Linked To El Nino | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

It is a pity that scientists at the Met are not building on this sort of work, rather than involving themselves in babyish attempts to blame droughts on mankind.