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"AP Exclusive: Wyoming Got EPA To Delay Frack Finding"

"CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Wyoming's governor persuaded the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to postpone an announcement linking hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination, giving state officials -- whom the EPA had privately briefed on the study -- time to attempt to debunk the finding before it rocked the oil and gas industry more than a month later, an investigation by The Associated Press has found."

Source: AP, 05/09/2012

"Big Tobacco Wins Fire Marshals as Allies in Flame Retardant Push"

"The problem facing cigarette manufacturers decades ago involved tragic deaths and bad publicity, but it had nothing to do with cancer. It had to do with house fires. Smoldering cigarettes were sparking fires and killing people. And tobacco executives didn't care for one obvious solution: create a 'fire-safe' cigarette, one less likely to start a blaze."

Source: Chicago Tribune, 05/09/2012

White House Met 4 Times With Industry, 1 With Enviros on Frack Rules

"The Interior Department's rollout of hydraulic fracturing disclosure rules for public lands late last week was preceded by a bevy of White House meetings between President Obama's aides and industry lobbyists."

Source: EnergyWire, 05/09/2012

"Vermont Will Be First U.S. State to Ban Fracking"

"MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Vermont is about to become the first U.S. state to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas."

Source: ENS, 05/09/2012

"Wyoming Premium Farms Abuse Alleged By Humane Society (GRAPHIC VIDEO)"

New undercover videos of cruel treatment of pigs in a facility raising them for meat raised questions that resonated across the US meat industry.

Source: Huffington Post, 05/09/2012

Conservative Groups Step Up Attacks on Obama's Clean Energy Strategy

"Confidential memo seen by Guardian calls for climate change sceptics to turn American public against solar and wind power"

Source: Guardian, 05/09/2012

"Salazar Lauds Utah Drilling Deal -- One Enviros And Industry Back"

"Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday signed -- and hailed -- Utah’s latest natural-gas drilling plan as an environmentally sensitive leap toward energy security."

Source: AP, 05/09/2012

"Climate Change Accelerating, Complicating Idaho's Spring Runoff"

"The effects of global warming are making it more difficult for reservoir managers to control floods and manage flows for irrigation, recreation and fisheries."

Source: Idaho Statesman, 05/09/2012

"U.S. Poised to Approve Drilling Plan"

"U.S. officials are expected Tuesday to approve a plan by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to drill 3,700 natural-gas wells in eastern Utah, capping a yearslong review of a project that will be one of the largest in the region."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 05/08/2012

"Canton Fire Shows Gaps in Information for Responders"

"Dispatched to a one-story brick warehouse in flames on Baylis Street in [the] Canton [neighborhood of Baltimore, Md.] last month, firefighters did not know it contained 8,000 gallons of corrosive chemicals. But not because it wasn't known to the Baltimore City Fire Department."

Source: Baltimore Sun, 05/08/2012

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