"TransCanada Submits New Route for Oil Pipeline"
"The company planning the disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline has proposed a new route through Nebraska that avoids the state's environmentally sensitive Sandhills region."
Source: AP, 04/19/2012
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"U.S. Caps Emissions in Drilling for Fuel"
"WASHINGTON -- Oil and gas companies will have to capture toxic and climate-altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines under new air quality standards issued on Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rule is the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which releases toxic and cancer-causing chemicals like benzene and hexane, as well as methane, a powerful greenhouse gas."
Source: NY Times, 04/19/2012
"Greenpeace: How Clean (And Green) Is Your Cloud?"
"Greenpeace released its latest report today asking, 'How clean is your cloud?' The annual report examines the server farms built by the largest Internet companies -- including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo -- and ranks them according to how efficient their cloud facilities are, and where they get their electricity."
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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"Q. & A.: Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club"
The New York Times' Felicity Barringer interviews Sierra Club head Michael Brune about environmental politics, money, and President Obama.
Source: Green (NYT), 04/18/2012
"U.S. Throws Open Doors To LNG Exports With Cheniere Approval"
"Cheniere Energy Inc. has cleared a major regulatory hurdle to building a $5 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana."
Source: EnergyWire, 04/18/2012
"Obama Wants To Target Oil Market Manipulation"
"President Barack Obama pushed Congress Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators, the latest White House response to determined Republican attacks on administration energy policies amid high gas prices at the pump."
Source: AP, 04/18/2012
"Electric Cars Cheaper To Run, Less Polluting: Report"
"Electric vehicles in the United States save money on fuel and are less polluting than most gasoline-powered vehicles, even in places where electricity is made by burning coal, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a report released on Monday."
"'Drivers should feel confident that owning an electric vehicle is a good choice for reducing global warming pollution, cutting fuel costs, and slashing oil consumption,' said Don Anair, a senior engineer on UCS's clean vehicles program.
Source: Reuters, 04/17/2012
"Natural Oil Seep Caused Gulf Of Mexico Sheen: BSEE"
"An oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico last week came from a natural sea floor seep and not from Royal Dutch Shell offshore production platforms, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Monday."
"'A modest amount of oil is being released from a natural sea floor seep previously suspected as the source of an oil sheen reported last week in the Gulf of Mexico,' BSEE said in an emailed news release."
Bruce Nichols reports for Reuters April 17, 2012.
Source: Reuters, 04/17/2012
Mitochondria Related to Ocean Bacteria, But Not the Ones We Thought
"Two billion years ago, around the time atmospheric oxygen levels were rising, one cell engulfed another, and instead of becoming lunch, the ingestee became an Earth-changer and, eventually, a vital part of you: mitochondria."
Source: Scientific American, 04/17/2012
"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Headed Up Again"
"After dropping for two years during the recession, emissions of the gases blamed for global warming rose in 2010 as the economy heated up, the Environmental Protection Agency reports. Output of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gasses were up 3.2 percent from 2009 as the nation climbed slowly out of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, the E.P.A. said."
Source: Green (NYT), 04/17/2012
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