"Nuke Agency Resumes Yucca Mountain Review"
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has ordered its staff to get back to work finalizing a review of a controversial nuclear waste dump in Nevada."
Source: The Hill, 11/19/2013
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"Colorado Pitches New Rules To Cut Oil And Gas Industry Air Pollution"
"State health officials rolled out groundbreaking rules for the oil and gas industry Monday to address worsening air pollution, including a requirement that companies control emissions of the greenhouse gas methane, linked to climate change."
Source: Denver Post, 11/19/2013
"Hanford Nuclear Cleanup Slow, Workers Frustrated"
"WASHINGTON — The government’s multi-billion-dollar effort to clean up Hanford, the nation’s largest former nuclear-weapons site, has become its own dysfunctional mess, critics say."
Source: Center for Public Integrity, 11/19/2013
"'Clean Up Your Act,' UN Climate Chief Urges Coal Industry"
"WARSAW -- The U.N. climate chief urged a radical clean-up of the coal industry on Monday to help limit global warming, at an industry meeting in Warsaw condemned by environmentalists as a distraction from the nearby U.N. climate change conference."
Source: Reuters, 11/19/2013
Rail Industry Group Says Tougher Rules Needed for Tank Cars Hauling Oil
"A major rail industry group is calling for updating or phasing out thousands of tank cars used to carry crude oil, as federal officials weigh new regulations on moving hazardous materials by rail."
Source: EnergyWire, 11/18/2013
Washington: "Coal Loses Ballot Test"
"County council elections turn on local issues, but the recent ballot in Washington State's Whatcom County drew big money and national interest. As Ashley Ahearn of public media's EarthFix reports,these councillors must approve any permit for a huge coal export facility, and those elected are considered by many to be opponents of such a coal terminal."
Source: Living on Earth/EarthFix, 11/18/2013
Biofuels Makers Blame Big Oil for EPA Plan to Cut Renewables Standard
"Biofuels makers and corn producers are not happy about the Environmental Protection Agency scaling back on renewable-fuel levels for next year, and they're united about who's to blame: the oil industry."
Source: National Journal, 11/18/2013
"Attack Ravages Power Grid. (Just a Test.)"
"WASHINGTON — In windowless rooms from here to California, nearly 10,000 electrical engineers, cybersecurity specialists, utility executives and F.B.I. agents furiously grappled over 48 hours with an unseen 'enemy' who tried to turn out the lights across America. The enemy injected computer viruses into grid control systems, bombed transformers and substations and knocked out power lines by the dozen."
Source: NY Times, 11/15/2013
Southern KXL Pipe Dents, Sags Show Need For More Tests: Public Citizen
"WASHINGTON -- The Keystone XL pipeline section from the oil transport hub of Cushing, Okla., to the Texas Gulf Coast is plagued by construction problems, code violations and improper inspection and shouldn't be allowed to operate until the government steps up oversight, the watchdog group Public Citizen argued in a report Tuesday."
Source: Huffington Post, 11/15/2013
Personnel: "Chief of Major Green Group To Retire in 2014"
"The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on Thursday announced president Frances Beinecke will retire at the end of 2014.
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 11/15/2013
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