"Cleanup Worker Illness Stats Triple Since Prior Report"
After a change in counting methods, the number of Gulf spill response worker illnesses has more than tripled.
Source: ProPublica, 06/25/2010
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"Climate Change Debate To Get Radical Overhaul"
"World leaders will give final approval on a plan to radically overhaul the global climate change debate at summit meetings in Toronto this weekend in the hope of breaking the deadlock in talks for an international emissions-reduction deal, the Toronto Star has learned."
Source: Toronto Star, 06/25/2010
"Spill-Related Measures Advance in Congress"
"A congressional stampede to pass oil spill legislation gathered momentum Thursday as a Senate committee voted to impose tougher penalties on water polluters, and lawmakers unveiled a comprehensive bill to strengthen environmental and safety rules on offshore drilling."
Source: LA Times, 06/25/2010
"Oil Soaks Miles of Pensacola Beach"
"More than two months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Pensacola awoke Wednesday to the largest onslaught of black crude on Florida's coast, as more than nine miles of white shoreline and beaches were soaked with syrupy oil."
Source: CNN, 06/24/2010
Amid Oil Crisis, ICE Agents Search for Undocumented Cleanup Workers
"Federal immigration officials have been visiting command centers on the Gulf Coast to check the immigration status of response workers hired by BP and its contractors to clean up the immense oil spill."
Source: Feet In Two Worlds, 06/24/2010
"African Nations Plan to Save Thousands of Endangered Chimpanzees"
"The nations of East and Central Africa and some of the world's largest conservation organizations have developed a 10-year conservation action plan to save thousands of endangered eastern chimpanzees."
Source: ENS, 06/24/2010
"Despite Spill, Louisiana Remains Wedded To Oil"
"Louisiana is married to the oil and gas business, for better or for worse. The energy industry depends on Louisiana to supply 30 percent of the nation's oil supply, and Louisiana depends on the industry as the state's biggest economic engine. But there is a cost, as the Deepwater Horizon has proven."
Source: NPR, 06/24/2010
"Asian Carp Found Past Barrier In Chicago Lake"
"A single Asian carp has been found for the first time beyond the electric barriers constructed to keep the dreaded invasive species out of the Great Lakes, state and federal officials announced Wednesday."
Source: AP, 06/24/2010
"Canada To Phase Out Older Coal-Fired Power Plants"
"Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard."
Source: Reuters, 06/24/2010
"BP Is Pursuing Alaska Drilling Some Call Risky"
One major BP drilling project, three miles off the coast of Alaska, has been exempted from the Obama administration's moratorium on offshore drilling. Regulators are calling it "onshore" because it is built on an artificial island.
Source: NYTimes, 06/24/2010
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