ClimateWire http://www.climatewire.net The Premier Information Source for Professionals Who Track Environmental and Energy Policy. en-us Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 Many of the beaches along Rep. Allen West's district in southeast Florida are disappearing, and the conservative freshman who joined Congress in the anti-spending wave of 2010 wants to help fix them. West is joining Palm Beach County officials to support projects that could siphon tons of sand from offshore in the ocean onto popular beaches that are being devoured by roiling waves and occasional hurricanes. He also speaks positively of building hardened walls called groins that jut toward the horizon to prevent sand from sifting along the shoreline. SPOTLIGHT Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/1 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has abandoned an effort to reconstruct a detailed picture of hour-by-hour changes in the atmosphere stretching back to the 19th century. Known as the 20th Century Reanalysis, the project has already helped scientists better understand the causes of historic weather events like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and unusual Arctic warmth during the 1920s and 1930s. Those discoveries and others could eventually improve the predictions of climate models that look decades into the future. SPOTLIGHT Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/2 U.S. airlines are quietly figuring out how to adapt to the European Union's carbon trading scheme, even as renewed opposition sought to throw the emissions plan into a tailspin. Some… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/3 The first new nuclear reactor to be approved in the United States in a generation is also designed to be the safest. Two Toshiba/Westinghouse AP1000 reactors were cleared yesterday by… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/4 A report from California's legislative analyst on the cost-effectiveness of cap-and-trade recommends that producers of carbon offset credits, not buyers, be held liable for their value if their projects fail.… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/5 A leading climate change activist has launched a diplomatic campaign on behalf of ousted Maldivian president and environmental champion Mohamed Nasheed. Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, delivered petitions with about… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/6 Polysilicon, the core ingredient of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules, will continue to see sagging prices as the 2011 supply-and-demand imbalance persists into this year, according to a new report published… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/7 Iceland's showcase this week of a data center powered by renewables brings the country a step closer to its goal of becoming a hot spot for energy-efficient computing. About 30… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/8 The city of Stockton, Calif., has released a tentative climate plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent compared to 2005 levels. The plan, with strategies for areas including… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/9 Canadian environmental groups have accused a powerful oil and gas lobby of an "all-out public relations war" on European embassies as Europe moves toward an import ban on high-emissions Canadian… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/10 The world's largest offshore wind farm opened off the Cumbrian coast of Britain yesterday, signaling investor confidence even at a moment when many of the country's parliamentarians are railing against… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/11 Snails cannot adapt much further to rising temperatures, and scientists fear they may not survive increasingly extreme weather and heat. A team of researchers at Flinders University in Australia has… TODAY'S STORIES Fri Feb 10 09:00:00 -0500 2012 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2012/02/10/12