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Natural Resources

New Report Documents Extractive Industries' Payments

Journalists reporting on energy and natural resources just got a new data resource: a report from the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Want to know what the government gets paid for coal, oil, and mining on federal lands? It has pretty good answers.

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Feds Seek Rules To Plug Harmful Oil And Gas Leaks on Wildlife Refuges

"About 5,000 oil and gas wells sit on national wildlife refuges — some of the prettiest land that American taxpayers own — and more than a thousand of them are spewing oil and brine because regulations written a half-century ago don’t force owners to plug leaks that are harmful to animals."

Source: Wash Post, 12/11/2015

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