"Oil Falls Below $91 as Iran Allows Nuclear Probe"
"Oil fell to a seven-month low below $91 a barrel Wednesday after Iran agreed to allow the U.N. nuclear agency to restart an investigation into the country's nuclear program."
Source: AP, 05/23/2012
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Fracking Debate Seeps into Delaware Via DuPont Wastewater Pipe
"In 2009 and 2010, the Delaware River near Wilmington got a little-noticed early taste of the waste left behind by the controversial natural gas drilling method called fracking. Some 1.4 million gallons of partially treated wastewater collected from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, wells outside the Delaware River basin were further processed and flushed into Delaware waters through the commercial side of DuPont Co.’s big wastewater plant in Deepwater, N.J., near the foot of the Delaware Memorial Bridge."
Source: Delaware News Journal, 05/22/2012
Canada Cruising for Major Oil Spill Crisis in the Arctic, Expert Warns
"One of Canada's top experts on Arctic issues is warning of the 'near-inevitability' of an Exxon Valdez-scale oil spill at a fragile choke point in Alaskan waters if Canada ends up shipping oilsands fuel to China via pipeline terminals on the British Columbia coast."
Source: Postmedia, 05/22/2012
G8: Leaders Open Up Vital New Front in the Battle To Control Warming
"It seems to have gone virtually unnoticed, but the world leaders at the weekend's G8 summit look as if they have taken the biggest step in years in tackling climate change. And it's quite apart from anything to do with carbon dioxide."
Source: London Telegraph, 05/22/2012
"New Pipeline Proposal Stokes Enviro Fears of A Keystone XL East"
"Environmentalists battling Canadian oil companies over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf Coast and another link west to Asia are now girding for what they see as industry's Plan C: Move heavy crude to the East.
At issue is a plan announced this week by Enbridge Pipelines Inc. to reverse the flow of a pipeline that now carries 240,000 daily barrels of imported oil west from Canada's East Coast.
Source: Greenwire, 05/21/2012
"Strange Bedfellows in House Lead Charge Against USEC Funding"
"A push by congressional leaders to fund an embattled uranium enrichment project in Ohio has triggered strong bipartisan backlash in the House and accusations that leading GOP figures are backing earmarks for a project with similarities to the bankrupt solar firm Solyndra."
Source: E&E Daily, 05/21/2012
"Texas Judge Will Rule Against Las Brisas Power Plant Air Permit"
"AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas District Court judge Monday issued a letter announcing that he intends to rule against the state environmental agency's air permit for a proposed power plant in Corpus Christi."
Source: ENS, 05/18/2012
"US Enrichment Corp. Seeks 2nd Federal Bailout from Pals in Congress
"The troubled United States Enrichment Corp., on the brink of closing a Kentucky enrichment plant, has been bailed out in a complex Energy Department accord designed to keep that facility open one more year."
Source: Wash Post, 05/18/2012
"U.S. Slaps High Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels"
"The United States on Thursday announced the imposition of antidumping tariffs of more than 31 percent on solar panels from China. The move by the Commerce Department is certain to infuriate Chinese officials already upset after recent bilateral frictions over China’s human rights policies and its increasingly confrontational approach toward American allies like the Philippines and Japan."
Source: NY Times, 05/18/2012
"Town's Effort To Link Fracking And Illness Falls Short"
"Quite a few of the 225 people who live in Dish, Texas, think the nation's natural gas boom is making them sick. They blame the chemicals used in gas production for health problems ranging from nosebleeds to cancer.
And the mayor of Dish, Bill Sciscoe, has a message for people who live in places where gas drilling is about to start: 'Run. Run as fast as you can. Grab up your family and your belongings, and get out.'"
Source: NPR, 05/17/2012
