"As La. Coast Recedes, Battle Rages Over Who Should Pay"
"Louisiana's coast is disappearing at the rate of about a football field an hour. Since the 1930s, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed up an area the size of Delaware."
Source: NPR, 04/16/2014
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"Radioactive Waste Booms With Oil as States Eye New Rules: Energy"
"Oilfields are spinning off thousands of tons of low-level radioactive trash as the U.S. drilling boom leads to a surge in illegal dumping and states debate how much landfills can safely take."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/16/2014
"Momentum Builds to Restore Wind Energy Tax Credit"
"WASHINGTON -- Last year, the U.S. wind energy industry chalked up a record number of projects and generating capacity under construction. By year end, private corporations invested billions of dollars, and new records for generation were set in many locations, according to the U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report Year Ending 2013, released Thursday by the American Wind Energy Association, AWEA."
Source: ENS, 04/16/2014
"Political Rifts Slow U.S. Effort on Climate Laws"
"The United States needs to enact a major climate change law, such as a tax on carbon pollution, by the end of this decade to stave off the most catastrophic impacts of global warming, according to the authors of a report released this week by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
Source: NY Times, 04/16/2014
"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fall 10 Percent Since 2005: EPA"
"U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2012, more than halfway toward the United States' 2020 target pledged at United Nations climate talks, according to the latest national emissions inventory."
Source: Reuters, 04/16/2014
"Despite Rise in Spills, Hazardous Cargo Rides Rails in Secret"
"Jodi Ross, town manager in Westford, Mass., did not expect she would be threatened with arrest after she and her fire chief went onto the railroad tracks to find out why a train carrying liquid petroleum gas derailed on a bridge in February. But as they reached the accident site northwest of Boston, a manager for Pan Am Railways called the police, claiming she was trespassing on rail property. The cars were eventually put back on the tracks safely, but the incident underlined a reality for local officials dealing with railroads."
Source: NY Times, 04/16/2014
"EPA Drastically Underestimates Methane Released at Drilling Sites"
"Drilling at several natural gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania released methane into the atmosphere at rates that were 100 to 1,000 times higher than federal regulators had estimated, new research shows."
Source: LA Times, 04/15/2014
"Kitimat Residents Vote No on Northern Gateway"
"The backers of the Northern Gateway pipeline are vowing to plow ahead despite a blunt rejection by citizens of Kitimat, the community that stands to gain the most from the $7.9 billion megaproject."
Source: Vancouver Sun, 04/14/2014
"Ohio Geologists Link Local Earthquakes Directly To Fracking"
"Geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquakes in a geologic formation deep under the Appalachians to hydraulic fracturing, leading the state to issue new permit conditions Friday in certain areas that are among the nation's strictest."
Source: Aljazeera America, 04/14/2014
"Residents Urge DNR to Deny Coal Ash Landfill Permit"
"The Missouri Department of Natural Resources should deny a construction permit for a proposed Ameren coal ash landfill in Labadie, residents said Tuesday."
Source: Columbia Missourian, 04/14/2014
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