"Renewable Energy Standards Survive Lobby's Anti-Mandate Blitz"
"For renewable energy supporters, this was supposed to be a year of statehouse setbacks."
Source: Stateline, 06/25/2013
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"Study Finds More Gas in Water Near Marcellus Shale Wells"
"Natural gas has likely seeped into Northeast Pennsylvania water supplies from both deep gas drilling and natural processes, researchers at Duke University reported in a paper released Monday."
Source: Scranton Times-Tribune, 06/25/2013
"Tenaska Drops Taylorville Coal-Plant Project"
"TAYLORVILLE, Ill. -- A Nebraska company dropped plans to build a $3.5 billion coal-based power plant in central Illinois, saying it instead will focus on developing natural gas-fueled and renewable facilities elsewhere."
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 06/24/2013
"House Spending Panel Votes to Gut Clean-Energy Research"
"Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives made manifest yesterday how much they dislike President Barack Obama's clean-energy agenda as a House spending panel voted for massive cuts in clean-energy research."
Source: Science, 06/21/2013
Wyoming To Lead Further Investigation Into Pavillion Water Concerns
"A federal environmental regulator will not finish and review a draft report tentatively linking hydraulic fracturing to Wyoming groundwater contamination and will instead allow state agencies to further investigate the issue."
Source: Casper Star-Tribune, 06/21/2013
"New Indictments for ex-BP Executive, Engineer Over Gulf Spill"
"Federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal indictments on Wednesday against a former BP Plc executive and a former BP engineer charged with obstructing investigations into the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill."
Source: Reuters, 06/20/2013
Congressional Research Service Reports on Environment Leaked
Topics of the latest CRS reports shared by the Federation of American Scientist's Project on Government Secrecy include GMO wheat, earthquake risk and highway infrastructure, carbon capture and sequestration, the regional greenhouse gas initiative, regulation of fertilizers, and more.
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Disclosure? BLM Fracking Rule Panned by Industry, Panned by Enviros
The revised proposal still allows companies to claim trade secrecy on chemicals in fracking fluid — and to fulfill disclosure requirements on the remainder by submitting them to the controversial FracFocus database, run by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and the Groundwater Protection Council.
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"Army Corps Won't Do Overall Environmental Study of Coal Exports"
"An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday it doesn't plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the western United States."
Source: AP, 06/19/2013
"Keystone XL Pipeline Shuns High-Tech Oil Spill Detectors"
"TransCanada Corp., which says Keystone XL will be the safest pipeline ever built, isn’t planning to use infrared sensors or fiber-optic cables to detect spills along the system’s 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) path to Texas refineries from fields in Alberta."
Source: Bloomberg, 06/18/2013
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