River of News
The River of News is an aggregation of news feeds about environment-related topics from a wide variety of sources. While SEJ selects the individual feeds, SEJ does not select the stories that the feeds provide. SEJ neither endorses nor bears responsibility for their content. They are provided as a service to SEJ members who many want to glean story ideas from them. SEJ urges all users to check the accuracy of assertions made in these feeds.
The feeds in the River of News span many content types — from professional news services and newspaper blogs to government agency press releases and public relations or activist group releases. Some are grouped topically.
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A U.S. energy agency says refining capacity stayed mostly flat between the starts of 2017 and 2018, the first time refineries didn't add capacity since 2012.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Offshore energy services firm Tidewater Inc. is buying Houston rival GulfMark Offshore in an all-stock deal that combines two struggling companies that emerged from bankruptcy last year. Tidewater, which relocated from New Orleans to Houston...Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Even as U.S. oil production continues to grow, the nation's refining capacity is barely budging, the research firm Morningstar said Monday.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Gasoline prices in Houston fell slightly last week, but prices across the country remained mostly flat after surging alongside crude oil prices ahead of the July 4 holiday.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Libya’s oil output will keep dropping day by day if major ports remain closed after clashes last month led to a political deadlock, the head of the country’s state energy producer said.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Houston fracking firm U.S. Well Services will go public and expand through a new business combination with additional private equity investments.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Evidence is mounting that Saudi Arabia is heeding U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for OPEC to keep the oil market amply supplied and rein in prices.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Oil retreated below $71 a barrel as Saudi Arabia was said to offer extra crude to some customers, while the U.S. reportedly considered tapping emergency supplies, to offset output losses around the world.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Gasoline prices in Houston fell slightly last week while prices across the country fluctuated amid a drop in crude oil prices.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Oil and natural gas companies have been working together to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, including methane.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Rig counts in the U.S. rose by five last week, the Houston energy services company Baker Hughes reported.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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An Austin-based oil company has acquired another 23,000 acres in South Texas' Eagle Ford Shale oil field.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Chinese artist Brother Nut can point to some success from his Beijing exhibit that used 10,000 bottles of yellowish water to raise awareness of contaminated rural ground water, although it did not go down so well with Beijing authorities.Origin: Reuters Environment
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A high-pressure cell recently idled over southern California like the lid of Satan’s pressure cooker, wilting residents with record-shattering heat. Many of those wilting residents were human. Others were trees — including avocado trees. In...Origin: Grist News Links
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Maher Taha, his wife and six children sit enjoying the breeze on beach in Gaza, doing their best to ignore the rubbish and raw sewage floating a few yards off shore.Origin: Reuters Environment
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a semi crash this morning near the town of Ray in Williams County. Gasoline is leaking from the trailer and all lanes of Highway Two in
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Hot weather can influence cognitive performance, according to new research. Young adults living in non-air-conditioned dorms during a heat wave performed worse on math and attention tests.(Image credit: Marcus Butt / Ikon/Getty Images)Origin: NPR Environment
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China and the European Union on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris climate change pact and called other signatories to do the same, saying action against rising global temperatures had become more important than ever.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a breeding farm, an official said.Origin: Reuters Environment
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When Isao Akutagawa moved to the sleepy riverside town of Mabi in western Japan 45 years ago, it seemed like the perfect suburb to raise his children.Origin: Reuters Environment
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