"'Climategate' Inquiry Led by Oil Boss"
"Lord Oxburgh, former non-executive chairman of Shell, will head up a team of leading scientists looking at claims fossil fuels cause global temperatures to rise."
Source: London Telegraph, 03/25/2010
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"BP, Others Push Against Federal Regulation of Fracturing"
"BP America Inc. and two other oil and gas companies are lobbying for the new Senate climate and energy bill to recommend against federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing." A draft would bar public disclosure of chemicals in fracturing fluid, some of which are toxic.
Source: Greenwire, 03/25/2010
EPA Releases HERO Risk Assessment Database
The Health and Environmental Research Online database compiles references to scientific studies that EPA uses in making regulatory decisions.
EPA Makes TSCA Inventory Available Online for Free
But the list — the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory — is still minus some 17,000 chemicals that manufacturers allege are trade secrets.
Senate Trio's Climate Bill Said To Hide Info on Fracking Poisons
A March 23, 2010, Greenwire article reports that the draft Kerry-Lieberman-Graham climate bill may include language to keep potentially toxic ingredients from gas drilling secret from the public whose health may be harmed by them.
SEJ Comments on How To Make EPA More Open
SEJ's suggestions included an end to requiring Saddam-style "minders" and press-office permissions before reporters could talk to EPA scientists and staff; prompter PIO callbacks and interviews; an end to automatic "background;" and more.
SEJ Supports 'Faster FOIA' Bill
Bill S 3111, introduced on March 15, 2010, by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy and cosponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), would create a panel to study ways to reduce FOIA delays.
U of Toronto's Centre for Environment Research Day
On Earth Day, the University of Toronto will host a free presentation of research conducted by members of its Centre for Environment.
"Stone Age Could Complicate N.Sea Wind Farm Plans"
"Energy firms taking part in a North Sea boom for offshore wind farms will have to watch out for remains of Stone Age villages submerged for thousands of years, an expert said on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 03/24/2010
"Study Says Mercury in Great Salt Lake Is Global Problem"
"Scientific studies are turning up answers to a baffling mystery about the Great Salt Lake. The new findings help explain why concentrations of toxic mercury in the lake are higher than anywhere else in the country. The new studies suggest it's not so much our local pollution that's at fault -- it appears to be mainly the world's pollution."
Source: KSL-TV, 03/24/2010
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