"Bans and Rules Muddy Prospects for Gas Drilling"
"In three decades of drilling, John C. Holko said, his oil and gas business has never faced such a hostile environment."
Source: NY Times, 01/04/2013
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Oil Rig off Alaska Is Damaged but Not Leaking: Shell, Coast Guard Say
"A Shell Oil drilling rig that ran aground in the Gulf of Alaska has incurred water damage to its deck and electrical systems but is otherwise stable, officials with the response team handling the accident said Thursday."
Source: NY Times, 01/04/2013
"Farm Bill Extension Evidence Of Ag Sector's Lost Political Clout"
"WASHINGTON -- A patchwork extension of federal farm programs passed as part of a larger 'fiscal cliff' bill keeps the price of milk from rising but doesn't include many of the goodies that farm-state lawmakers are used to getting for their rural districts."
Source: AP, 01/04/2013
Transocean Settles for $1.4 Billion in Gulf Oil Spill"
"Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that was drilling the BP Macondo well when it caught fire and sank off the Louisiana coast in 2010, beginning the nation's largest oil spill, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act and pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines to settle violations of the Clean Water Act and federal offshore drilling safety regulations, the company and the U.S. Justice Department announced today."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 01/04/2013
Announcement: SEJ's 23rd Annual Conference Returns to Chattanooga, TN, Oct. 2-6, 2013
July 5, 2012—The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to accept the invitation of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Chattanooga Times Free Press to bring our 2013 meeting to Tennessee. This will be the first time in 20 years that SEJ is bringing its annual conference back to a conference host.
"Triclosan Fears Lead To Alternative Soaps"
"CleanWell's hand soaps promise to slay germs, and foam and ooze - just as soap should. But unlike many antibacterial soaps, the ones from this young San Francisco company and a growing number of other manufacturers lack a potentially harmful chemical: triclosan."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 01/03/2013
"Concern Over Pesticide Use at Schools Rises"
"Parents are becoming more aware as some schools in the state are not moving to reduce pesticide use."
Source: Portland Press Herald, 01/03/2013
"Passengers on India's 'Cancer Train' Share Stories of Pain and Hope"
"Every night, hundreds of cancer patients from the farming region of southern Punjab huddle together with their families in an overnight train journey to the nearest cancer hospital, 220 miles away. ... The patients travel from the fertile farming areas of the northern state of Punjab, a region that reports an alarmingly high use of pesticides."
Source: Wash Post, 01/03/2013
"Storms on U.S. Plains Stir Memories of the 'Dust Bowl'"
"Real estate agent Mark Faulkner recalls a day in early November when he was putting up a sign near Ulysses, Kansas, in 60-miles-per-hour winds that blew up blinding dust clouds."
Source: Reuters, 01/03/2013
MTBE: "Long-Awaited NH Pollution Trial Ready To Start"
"CONCORD, N.H. -- Nearly a decade after it was first brought, a lawsuit accusing two oil giants of widespread groundwater contamination in New Hampshire is expected to present jurors with the most complex and time-consuming trial in state history."
Source: AP, 01/03/2013
