Drawing on data from 8,000 power plants, refineries and factories, the Environmental Protection Agency releases an interactive map of greenhouse gas emissions in 2011 from the nation?s biggest industrial polluters. Emissions dipped from the previous year, largely because of a shift away from reliance on coal-fired power plants. [Environmental Protection Agency]
The Fish and Wildlife Service rejects a land swap that would have allowed a controversial road to cut through a remote wildlife refuge in Alaska. State officials protest the decision, which they say will prevent residents from traveling to seek medical care in bad weather. [Reuters]
One hundred electric vehicles will join United Postal Service?s trademark brown vans in what the company describes as the biggest corporate roll-out of zero-emissions vehicles ever in California. [The Miami Herald]
Nearly two years after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a boat washes ashore in central Oregon that appears to be debris from the event. Biologists say the boat does not seem to pose a risk of introducing invasive species. [Associated Press]
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