"Clean-Water Advocate Takes Earth Day Swim at Superfund Site"
"NEW YORK — A clean-water advocate took an Earth Day swim in the polluted Gowanus Canal, a federal Superfund site."
Source: AP, 04/23/2015
Pollution
After 3 Decades, EPA Tightens Toxic Air Standard for Oil Refineries
"Lawsuit helped force an update of emissions standards for dangerous chemicals that went unchanged nearly 30 years."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/23/2015
"Exxon Agrees to Pay U.S. Fine in Settling 2013 Oil Sands Spill"
"ExxonMobil Corp. agreed to pay more than $5 million, including a federal fine, as part of a settlement for the 2013 rupture of a pipeline in Arkansas that was carrying oil sands from Canada."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/23/2015
Fifth Anniversary of BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
April 20 was the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon offshore well blowout that led to one of the biggest environmental disasters in U.S. history. The Gulf of Mexico, its fish and wildlife, and the people whose jobs and lives depend on it are still recovering. Media coverage abounds — some of it focusing on whether the industry or the government learned anything from the disaster and how likely it is to happen again in the Gulf, in the Arctic, or elsewhere. SEJ has rounded up some of the coverage in its daily news digest, EJToday Headlines. We also published two useful explainers on the money issues and the science issues.
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"Five Years After BP Oil Spill, Some Gulf Oystermen Are Losing Hope"
"Five years after the largest oil spill in U.S. history spewed millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, many Louisiana oystermen are fearful that a once-bountiful population of the mollusks may never recover."
Source: Reuters, 04/20/2015
"Secrecy Shrouds Decade-Old Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico"
"OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO — A blanket of fog lifts, exposing a band of rainbow sheen that stretches for miles off the coast of Louisiana. From the vantage point of an airplane, it's easy to see gas bubbles in the slick that mark the spot where an oil platform toppled during a 2004 hurricane, triggering what might be the longest-running commercial oil spill ever to pollute the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: AP, 04/17/2015
House Panel Backs Bill To Give States Authority To Manage Coal Ash
"A House committee approved a bill Wednesday granting states authority to regulate waste generated from coal burned for electricity, largely bypassing a federal rule issued last year."
Source: AP, 04/16/2015
Enviros Sue TVA, Claiming Toxic Pollution Seeping Into Cumberland River
"Two Tennessee environmental groups claim toxic pollution from a coal-burning power plant is seeping into the Cumberland River and state regulators are not doing enough to stop it."
Source: ap, 04/16/2015
"Fracking Waste Puts Public at Risk, Study Says"
"Three decades after EPA left regulation to states, they're still taking a 'see no evil' approach to oil-and-gas-waste, Earthworks says."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/16/2015
"New Regulation Aims to Prevent Explosions at Offshore Rigs"
"The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new regulation for offshore oil and gas rigs intended to improve equipment standards and well designs and avoid a catastrophic spill like the one in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010."
Source: NY Times, 04/14/2015
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