News bites: Western states and Canada join on climate, BP kicks off 3rd quarter, and more

AP reports that governors from West Coast states joined with a Canadian province official on Monday to put a price on greenhouse gas pollution.

Reuters reports the oil giant BP kicked off the third quarter with good news for investors.

Bloomberg reveals it might take more than a year for California to finish a thorough environmental review of hydraulic fracturing. 

“I think we ought to give science a chance before deciding on a ban on fracking,” California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Monday. California’s study will become “the most comprehensive environmental analysis of fracking to date,” he said.

The New York Times looks at Superstorm Sandy and the scars it left one year later.