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Duke Says Removal of Coal Ash Ponds Could Take 30 Years, Cost $10B [1]

"For the first time since Duke Energy’s defunct Eden, N.C., coal plant leaked thousands of gallons of coal ash into the Dan River nearly three months ago, the public is getting a look at how the nation’s largest electric utility company may change its containment of coal ash, a substance environmentalists say is one of the biggest threats to rivers and groundwater across the country."

Source: Aljazeera America [2], 04/28/2014

"Second Radioactive Oil Waste Site Found in North Dakota" [3]

"North Dakota this week confirmed the discovery of a new radioactive dump of waste from oil drilling. And separately, a company hired to clean up similar waste found in February at another location said it had removed more than double the amount of radioactive material originally estimated to be there."

Source: Aljazeera America [4], 04/28/2014

"Automakers Comply Quickly With EPA Tailpipe Rule" [5]

"Automakers on average have reduced the greenhouse gas footprint of their model year 2012 passenger vehicles even below the levels required by U.S. EPA's new tailpipe emissions rules, according to a new report released today by the agency."

Source: Greenwire [6], 04/28/2014

DOT Said To Move Forward on Crude-By-Rail Rules This Week [7]

"The Department of Transportation is planning on sending a 'comprehensive' package of proposals regarding rail shipments of crude oil to the White House for its review [this] week."

Source: E2 Wire/The Hill [8], 04/28/2014

Pig Virus Wipes Out Over 10 Percent Of Nation's Hogs; Pork Prices Spike [9]

"CHICAGO -- John Goihl, a hog nutritionist in Shakopee, Minnesota, knows a farmer in his state who lost 7,500 piglets just after they were born. In Sampson County, North Carolina, 12,000 of Henry Moore's piglets died in three weeks. Some 30,000 piglets perished at John Prestage's Oklahoma operation in the fall of 2013."

Source: Reuters [10], 04/28/2014

"Fire-Setting Ranchers Have Burning Desire To Save Tallgrass Prairie" [11]

"For the past month, in part of eastern Kansas, the prairie has been burning, as it does almost every spring. On some days, you could look toward the horizon in any direction and see pillars of smoke. The plumes of pollution have traveled so far that they've violated limits for particulates or ozone in cities as far away as Lincoln, Neb."

Source: NPR [12], 04/28/2014

"Efforts To Zap Bacteria in Food Are Slow To Catch Hold" [13]

"The nuclear energy that Frank Benso uses to kill bacteria in fruit and oysters has won widespread support from public health officials and scientists, who say it could turn the tide against the plague of foodborne illness."

Source: Wash Post [14], 04/28/2014

"At Least 17 Killed as Tornadoes Rip Through Arkansas, Oklahoma" [15]

"Tornadoes ripped through the south-central United States on Sunday, killing at least 17 people in Arkansas and Oklahoma and wiping out entire neighborhoods, authorities said as rescue workers searched in darkness for survivors."

Source: Reuters [16], 04/28/2014

"Al Gore Is Not Giving Up" [17]

"A rare, frank conversation with the former vice president and climate-change activist."

Source: Politico [18], 04/25/2014

GOPers, Fox Retreat From Support of Bundy After His "Negro" Comments [19]

"Prominent Republicans and conservative news media outlets rallied in recent weeks around the cause of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, whose armed standoff with authorities over grazing rights on federal land had made him an instant folk hero on the right. But Bundy’s GOP defenders, including Sens. Dean Heller (Nev.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), rapidly abandoned him on Thursday following reports of incendiary remarks that the white rancher made about minorities. Bundy wondered aloud whether blacks would be better off as slaves picking cotton, and alleged that people of color are 'against us.'"

Source: Wash Post [20], 04/25/2014

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