"After 12 Years of Research, Hog-Waste Disposal Still Reeks"
"YADKINVILLE -- Google, of all companies, last year got into the business of hog poop."
Source: Raleigh News & Observer, 11/30/2012
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"Frack Secrets by Thousands Keep U.S. Clueless on Wells"
"A subsidiary of Nabors Industries Ltd. pumped a mixture of chemicals identified only as “EXP- F0173-11” into a half-dozen oil wells in rural Karnes County, Texas, in July. Few people outside Nabors, the largest onshore drilling contractor by revenue, know exactly what’s in that blend. This much is clear: One ingredient, an unidentified solvent, can cause damage to the kidney and liver, according to safety information about the product that Michigan state regulators have on file."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/30/2012
"Livestock Falling Ill in Fracking Regions"
"In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. While scientists have yet to isolate cause and effect, many suspect chemicals used in drilling and hydrofracking, or fracking, operations are poisoning animals through the air, water or soil."
Source: FERN Network, 11/30/2012
"BP's Dispersant Allowed Oil To Penetrate Beaches More Deeply"
A new study suggests that BP's use of dispersants during the 2010 Gulf oil spill likely allowed oil to penetrate beaches more deeply, making harmful effects last longer.
Source: Mother Jones, 11/30/2012
"Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill"
"When the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP's 'lack of business integrity' and conduct relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. The sanction, however, has been years in the making."
Source: ProPublica, 11/30/2012
"Saudi-Led Oil Lobby Group Financed 2012 Dark Money Attack Ads"
"The 'American' in American Petroleum Institute, the country's largest oil lobby group, is a misnomer. As I reported for The Nation in August, the group has changed over the years, and is now led by men like Tofiq Al-Gabsani, a Saudi Arabian national who heads a Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) subsidiary, the state-run oil company that also helps finance the American Petroleum Institute. Al-Gabsani is also a registered foreign agent for the Saudi government."
Source: Nation, 11/30/2012
"Longtime Massey Official Cooperating as Upper Big Branch Probe Widens"
"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A longtime Massey Energy executive has agreed to cooperate with investigators as they continue to try to work their way up the corporate ladder in their probe of the worst U.S. coal-mining disaster in nearly 40 years, federal prosecutors revealed Wednesday."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 11/29/2012
"Expiration Of Wind Tax Credit Kills Jobs, Senators Say"
"A bipartisan group of legislators said Wednesday that the failure to expand a critical subsidy for renewable energy could cost Americans tens of thousands of manufacturing and construction jobs."
Source: Huffington Post, 11/29/2012
Sec. of State Candidate Has Major Financial Stake in Canada Tar Sands
"Susan Rice, the candidate believed to be favored by President Obama to become the next Secretary of State, holds significant investments in more than a dozen Canadian oil companies and banks that would stand to benefit from expansion of the North American tar sands industry and construction of the proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline. If confirmed by the Senate, one of Rice's first duties likely would be consideration, and potentially approval, of the controversial mega-project."
Source: OnEarth, 11/29/2012
"EPA Halts Federal Contracts For BP"
"The Obama administration put a temporary stop to new federal contracts with British oil company BP on Wednesday, citing the company's 'lack of business integrity' and criminal proceedings stemming from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. The action by the Environmental Protection Administration won't affect current contracts, but prevents BP and its affiliates from new government contracts 'until the company can provide sufficient evidence to EPA demonstrating that it meets federal business standards,' the agency said."
Source: AP, 11/29/2012
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