"Wind-Energy Production Credit Breezes Into Tax ‘Extenders’ Bill"
"A tax credit for wind-energy production made it after all into a Senate bill that would revive a host of expired breaks for numerous industries."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 04/04/2014
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Monitoring in Fracking Areas Fails To Detect Air Toxic Spikes: Study
"People in natural gas drilling areas who complain about nauseating odors, nosebleeds and other symptoms they fear could be caused by shale development usually get the same response from state regulators: monitoring data show the air quality is fine. A new study helps explain this discrepancy. The most commonly used air monitoring techniques often underestimate public health threats because they don’t catch toxic emissions that spike at various points during gas production, researchers reported Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Reviews on Environmental Health. The study was conducted by the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project, a nonprofit based near Pittsburgh."
Source: InsideClimate & Others, 04/04/2014
"Coast Guard Blasts Shell for Ignoring Risks Over Arctic Rig in 2012"
"SEATTLE — A Coast Guard investigation into the 2012 grounding of the Kulluk, an offshore drilling rig operated by Royal Dutch Shell in the harsh Arctic, blasted the oil company for legal violations, poor management and taking undue risks, according to the final report released Thursday."
Source: LA Times, 04/04/2014
Anadarko Pays Billions in Settling Toxics Case
"HOUSTON — A giant Texas oil company, Anadarko Petroleum, has agreed to pay $5.1 billion for a vast environmental cleanup, a sum the Justice Department said was the largest it had ever won in such a case."
Source: NY Times, 04/04/2014
"Weak Records Cited on Pa. Shale Pollution"
"Even when pollution discharges from shale gas well pads and impoundments contaminate private water supplies, those violations often go unrecorded or publicly reported by state environmental regulators, according to documents filed in the Pennsylvania Superior Court case challenging the constitutionality of the state's oil and gas law, Act 13."
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 04/03/2014
"Plowed Under"
"Across the northern plains, native grassland is being turned into farmland at a rate not seen since the 1920s. The environmental consequences could be disastrous."
Source: American Prospect/FERN, 04/03/2014
UN Climate Chief Figueres Urges Shift of Oil And Gas Industry
The U.N.'s climate chief called on the oil and gas industry on Thursday to make a drastic shift to a clean, low-carbon future or risk having to leave three-quarters of fossil fuel reserves in the ground."
Source: Reuters, 04/03/2014
"1/4 of Europe's Bumblebees, Vital To Crops, Face Extinction: Study"
"Almost a quarter of Europe's bumblebees are at risk of extinction due to loss of habitats and climate change, threatening pollination of crops worth billions of dollars, a study showed on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 04/03/2014
Study Suggests Link Between Arsenic in Drinking Water And Intelligence
"Research involving hundreds of Maine children might represent a breakthrough about whether exposure to arsenic in drinking water — even at very low levels — could lead to reduced intelligence, scientists who conducted the study said Wednesday."
Source: Kennebec Journal, 04/03/2014
"Showdown Puts Energy Credit at Risk"
"The Senate Finance Committee’s abrupt move to take up “tax extenders” legislation is testing the lobbying clout of the renewable energy sector and other special interests in Washington."
Source: The Hill, 04/03/2014
