"Seaworld’s Unusual Retort to a Critical Documentary"
"SAN DIEGO — Hollywood has just cast SeaWorld as a bad guy. But SeaWorld has decided to diverge from the story line."
Source: NY Times, 07/19/2013
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"Davis-Besse Among 12 Plants at Risk, Says Analyst"
"OAK HARBOR, Ohio — Davis-Besse is identified in a new economic report as one of a dozen U.S. nuclear reactors most likely to be closed by their utilities before their licenses expire because of changing energy markets, including falling natural gas prices, rising costs of nuclear operations, repairs, and post-Fukushima retrofits."
Source: Toledo Blade, 07/19/2013
"TransCanada Rebuffs EPA’s Call for Keystone Clean Energy"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says TransCanada Corp. should be required to buy renewable power to run pumps along the route of its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a measure the company said is unworkable and unnecessary."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/19/2013
"DEP to AP: Study: Fracking Chemicals Didn't Spread"
"A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press."
Source: AP, 07/19/2013
"Climate-Related Power Outages Aren't Just a Coastal Problem"
"Eerie images of flooded, pitch-black lower Manhattan following Superstorm Sandy made it clear just how stark an effect climate change and extreme weather can have on our everyday access to electricity."
Source: Atlantic, 07/19/2013
"Ex-Im Bank Won't Finance Vietnam Coal-Fired Power Plant"
"The U.S. Export-Import Bank board of directors voted on Thursday not to proceed with the financing of U.S. exports to help build a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam, following a plea from U.S. environmental groups to stop the project."
Source: Reuters, 07/19/2013
"Public Trust Crisis Threatens China's Nuclear Power Ambitions"
"As China pushes an aggressive expansion of nuclear power it is running into a major stumbling block - a breakdown of trust, post-Fukushima, in official assurances of public safety."
Source: Reuters, 07/19/2013
"How To Better Protect Farmworkers From Pesticides: Spanish"
"Advocates for farmworkers, especially those who grow America's leafy greens and fresh vegetables, are pushing the government to do more to protect those workers from exposure to pesticides."
Source: NPR, 07/19/2013
"'Heat Dome' Grips Two-Thirds of The U.S."
"Cooler temperatures are approaching, but the year’s worst heat wave continues to punish areas from South Dakota to coastal Massachusetts on Thursday, prolonging withering conditions that have already claimed one man’s life in Kentucky."
Source: LA Times, 07/19/2013
"McCarthy Confirmation to Lead EPA Clears Way for Rules"
"Gina McCarthy’s confirmation to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency puts the former Republican aide in charge of developing wide-ranging climate-change rules that business group oppose."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/19/2013
