Yellowstone River Oil Spill: Exxon Challenges $1.7 Million In Penalties
"Exxon challenging $1.7M penalty for Yellowstone River pipeline break"
Source: AP, 07/18/2013
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"JPMorgan in Talks to Settle Energy Manipulation Case for $500 Million"
"JPMorgan Chase, the Wall Street giant whose reputation in Washington has eroded in a matter of months, is now moving to avert a showdown over accusations that it manipulated energy prices."
Source: NY Times, 07/18/2013
"Exxon's Secrecy Over Ruptured Pipeline Could Mask National Dangers"
"Reports that would reveal whether Exxon properly maintained its Pegasus pipeline are being kept from the public. The data has national ramifications."
Source: InsideClimate News, 07/18/2013
"PUC Staff Recommends $300 Million Fine For PG&E Over San Bruno Blast"
"SAN BRUNO -- Taking a tougher stand against PG&E, a revamped state regulatory body on Tuesday recommended that the utility be fined at least $300 million -- the largest ever imposed by the Public Utilities Commission -- as part of a $2.25 billion penalty for the company's role in the deadly San Bruno natural gas explosion."
Source: Oakland Tribune, 07/17/2013
"Survivors of Quebec Train Crash To File Class Action Suit"
"LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec -- Two residents of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, where a runaway train derailed and exploded into a wall of fire that killed 50 people, have launched a class action lawsuit to win compensation for the small community."
Source: Reuters, 07/17/2013
"Ageing Nuclear Reactors Pose Safety Challenge: IAEA"
"Significant progress was made last year in strengthening nuclear safety around the world, the U.N. atomic watchdog said in its annual review, despite the 'challenge' posed by a large number of ageing reactors."
Source: Reuters, 07/17/2013
"Florida Blasts Away Old Power Plant to Make Way for New"
"Oil plant demolition in Port Everglades part of a nationwide trend to decommission inefficient, costly, and polluting facilities."
Source: NatGeo, 07/17/2013
Aglukkaq Takes Environment Post as Ottawa Seeks To Win Over 1st Nations
"Prime Minister Stephen Harper has moved his cabinet’s lone aboriginal minister into the sensitive portfolio of Environment as the government works to win crucial First Nations’ support for new pipelines and other resource-development projects."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 07/17/2013
"World Bank To Limit Financing of Coal-Fired Plants"
"The World Bank's board on Tuesday agreed to a new energy strategy that will limit financing of coal-fired power plants to 'rare circumstances,' as the Washington-based global development powerhouse seeks to address the impact of climate change."
Source: Reuters, 07/17/2013
Full Extent of Heavy Metal Contamination in Exxon Spill Still Unknown
"Levels of manganese, a neurotoxin, in the cove and in a nearby creek were 10, 20 or nearly 30 times above the EPA's safety standard for tap water."
Source: InsideClimate News, 07/16/2013
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