Texas Legislature Moves to Ban Local Fracking Bans
Texas lawmakers moved to bar cities from restricting hydraulic fracturing and other drilling activities within their borders and allow only above ground controls while prohibiting below ground limits. The Denton ordinance had spurred the measure as critics say it tolerates industry sway and undermines property rights.
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Boston Marathon bomber cries at trial
In his federal death penalty trial, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shed tears for the first time as his sobbing aunt testified. The aunt Patimat Suleimanova cried, then left to compose herself, while Tsarnaev wiped his eyes with a tissue and blew a kiss to another relative.
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Obama urges mobilization to reverse racial inequalities
In New York the president links protests to minority unemployment and police bias toward black and Hispanic men. He vows a nationwide effort to change law enforcement and justice disparities, saying there are consequences to indifference and the cause will continue beyond his term.
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Cutting CO2 cuts 3500 lives a year study finds
An independent Harvard and Syracuse study concludes reducing power plant carbon dioxide will also lower soot and smog, preventing about 3,500 deaths annually. The research, in Nature Climate Change, aligns with the Obama EPA plan to cut CO2 30 percent from 2005 by 2030, despite congressional opposition.
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