"Lifting the ban on exporting crude oil would not raise domestic gasoline prices and could even reduce them, a new report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicted on Tuesday."
"Thick mats of algae spreading across western Lake Erie in recent weeks appear to be pushing one of the region's most-prized sport fish to flee, forcing some charter boat captains to cancel trips. At least one told out-of-state visitors hoping to catch walleye to stay home for now."
"After three days of spiking oil prices, a barrel of crude tumbled back nearly 8 percent on Tuesday, renewing despair in the oil patch. At the same time, ConocoPhillips announced it was cutting its global work force by 10 percent."
"Twenty-five years after the project began, the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at Hanford is nearing a three-fold cost overrun, and not a single drop of waste has been treated".
"Crews battling the largest array of wildfires in Washington state history gained more ground against the flames on Tuesday, as property assessors reported the deadly conflagration had destroyed more than 170 homes and dozens of other structures."
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Independent Hospitality Receptions
"Monsanto said it would abide by Latvia's and Greece's requests under a new EU opt-out law to be excluded from its application to grow a genetically modified (GM) crop across the European Union, but accused them of ignoring science."
"As drought-fueled wildfires rage across the West, farm communities on the frontlines are feeling the heat."
"A rare, incurable brain disorder that resembles Parkinson's disease is caused by a misfolded brain protein called a prion, similar to the prions that cause mad cow disease, researchers reported on Monday."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/feds-oil-exports-could-lower-gas-prices
[2] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/252414-federal-report-oil-exports-could-lower-gas-prices
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/algae-western-lake-erie-eats-fishing-business
[4] http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Algae-in-western-Lake-Erie-eats-into-fishing-6473263.php
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/price-crude-oil-tumbles-after-soaring-3-days
[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/business/energy-environment/oil-tumbles-as-wild-ride-continues.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nuclear-cleanup-haunted-design-failures-whistleblower-retaliation
[8] http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/09/01/17922/nuclear-cleanup-project-haunted-legacy-design-failures-and-whistleblower
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/largest-wildfire-washington-state-history-claims-176-homes
[10] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/02/us-usa-wildfires-idUSKCN0R203U20150902
[11] https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2015-independent-exhibitors
[12] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2015-main
[13] https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2015-independent-receptions
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/latvia-greece-win-opt-out-monsanto-gm-crop
[15] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/73581
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/northwest-farms-hit-hard-wildfires
[17] http://civileats.com/2015/08/31/northwest-farms-hit-hard-by-wildfires/?utm_campaign=2015-August-Social-Media&utm_content=19140866&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rare-brain-disease-caused-cousin-mad-cow-agent-study-finds
[19] http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rare-brain-disease-caused-cousin-mad-cow-agent-study-finds-n419096
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3116
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3113
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3114
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3115
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3118
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3119
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3120
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3121
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5083