The DNA of the world's food crops just got a little more secure. Two leading agricultural organizations, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and CGIAR Consortium, have agreed to invest $109 million over the next five years in the world's seed banks, which maintain 706,000 samples of seeds and vegetative material.
U.S. EPA's addition of oil, gas and coal methane emissions to its online greenhouse gas tracking tool revealed an 82.6-million-metric-ton increase in carbon dioxide equivalents over numbers from the previous year, when those figures were not available.
Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker is well on her way to becoming Commerce secretary, after both Democrats and Republicans voiced support for her nomination at a hearing yesterday. (E&ENews PM, )
Sen. Roy Blunt's meeting with President Obama's nominee to be U.S. EPA administrator on Wednesday did not persuade the Missouri Republican to drop his hold on her nomination. (E&ENews PM, )
Two dozen Senate Republicans yesterday warned President Obama against trying to package approval of Keystone XL with emissions-cutting policies that might assuage the environmental concerns of the pipeline's critics. (E&ENews PM, )
Hurry up and wait. (ClimateWire, )
As California moves forward with a Jan. 1 linkage date to the Quebec carbon market, E&E's OnPoint explores what hurdles still exist as they prepare for the first joint auction. (E&ENews PM, )
Sen. James Inhofe on Wednesday panned as "immoral" the suggestion by some of his Senate colleagues that this week's devastating Oklahoma tornado might be linked to climate change. (Greenwire, )
