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North Sea Blowout: "Well From Hell Cynicism" [1]

"The five-day-and-counting mega-engineering challenge continues at Total's Well-from-Hell in the North Sea. That name was coined by Frederic Hauge of Bellona, a Norwegian group that monitors the oil industry:

Source: Mother Jones [2], 03/30/2012

"Senate Rejects Obama Call To Strip Oil Company Tax Breaks" [3]

"A last minute entreaty by President Obama wasn’t enough to convince senators to strip the oil and gas industry of billions in tax incentives."

Source: ABC News [4], 03/30/2012

"Studies Show Why Insecticides Are Bad News For Bees" [5]

"The search for the killer of America's bees is a little bit like an Agatha Christie novel. Suspicion has turned toward one shady character and then another: declining habitat; parasites; diseases; pesticides.

Or did they all conspire in the recent mass murder of the country's bees?

Source: NPR [6], 03/30/2012

Topic on the Beat: Water & Oceans [7]

Here's a list of top water and ocean stories from SEJournal.

Topic on the Beat: Climate Change [8]

Here's a list of top climate change stories from SEJournal.

Topic on the Beat: Agriculture [9]

Here's a list of top agriculture stories from SEJournal.

"California Oil Refiners Turn to Processing Dirtier, Cheaper Crude Oil" [10]

"California's long-running campaign to reduce air pollution has indirectly helped create a new problem: its oil refineries produce more greenhouse gas emissions than refineries anywhere else in the country."

Source: InsideClimate News [11], 03/29/2012

"State Setting Health Standards for Emerging Contaminants" [12]

"ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Department of Health is taking a closer look at a variety of chemicals that make their way into the water supply. Federal and state regulators have already placed limits on many contaminants found in drinking water, among them lead and mercury. But health officials are turning their attention to other chemicals that are not widely known, including those in fragrances, prescription drugs and bug spray."

Source: Minnesota Public Radio [13], 03/29/2012

"Hundreds of Donkeys Abandoned in Lingering Drought" [14]

"With pastures withered from a lingering drought, farmers in Texas and northwest Louisiana have abandoned donkeys by the hundreds, turning them into wandering refugees that have severely tested animal rescue groups."

Source: AP [15], 03/29/2012

"No Vacancy: Unleashing the Potential of Empty Urban Land" [16]

"Tia Jackson’s family has lived on the same block of Halsey Street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood for five generations. Kristen Rapp is a newcomer. Jackson is black. Rapp is white. In a part of town where the gentrification process has been grinding along painfully for years, the two might never have met if not for a sign on a fence on a vacant lot, left there by the members of a group called 596 Acres."

Source: Grist [17], 03/29/2012

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