"West Virginia Company Fined $11K in Chemical Spill"
"A federal agency has fined the company that spilled chemicals into West Virginia's largest water supply $11,000 for a pair of violations."
"A federal agency has fined the company that spilled chemicals into West Virginia's largest water supply $11,000 for a pair of violations."
"ASHEVILLE, N.C. — North Carolina's environmental agency has ordered Duke Energy to install monitoring wells in a residential neighborhood outside Asheville to determine whether toxic chemicals from the company's coal ash pits are contaminating homeowners' drinking water."
"A Pennsylvania gas company offers residents cash to buy protection from any claims of harm."
"New federal research using data from southern West Virginia show streams affected by mountaintop removal mining have fewer fish species and fish overall than other streams."
"In southwest Florida, county officials are fighting the state over a new oil drilling process that's known by many different names: acidification, acidizing, acid stimulation and acid fracking."
"ET Rover Pipeline Company has set a date of June 2017 to have the natural gas pipeline, which will cross Ohio and Michigan, running."
"Protesters gathered to illegally dredge for gold on Tuesday in an Idaho river where such mining is banned, in an open challenge to the U.S. government's authority to regulate public waters and lands in Western states, an organizer said."
"Plastic seems to be disappearing from the world's oceans, and scientists are not sure why."
"North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple wants to expand his state's oil pipeline capacity, after the state's oil production reached the 1 million barrels per day mark. But, many worry about the potential environmental consequences such as oil spills."
"The Albany Court of Appeals Monday ruled New York cities and towns can ban hydraulic fracturing within their borders."