Joel Connelly: Oil industry move on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge set to begin Millions of acres of Arctic Alaska stand open and available for petroleum exploration, but industry's eyes have been focused for 40 years on the wild, wildlife-rich, 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
www.nytimes.com Five years after Sandy, are we better prepared? While much of New York City’s battered infrastructure has been repaired and even improved, most long-term resiliency measures are still years away