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"Nuclear Plant Safety Proposals Stir Debate Within Agency" [1]

"Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission appeared divided Tuesday over how to proceed with a staff proposal that calls for nuclear power plants to be better prepared for blackouts and natural disasters."

Source: Wall St. Journal [2], 07/20/2011

Fracking at Drinking Water Source for 80,000 in Pa. Raises Alarms [3]

"Documents and interviews reveal that one Pa. water utility has already leased its watershed to gas drillers — and many others are being courted."

Source: SolveClimate [4], 07/20/2011

"Jackson Summons Top Aides for Budget Pow-Wow as GOP Sharpens Knife" [5]

"In the face of drastic funding cuts and a hostile political environment, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has told her top deputies to rank which of their programs they deem to be essential and which could fall on the budgetary chopping block."

Source: Greenwire [6], 07/20/2011

"GAO: States Underreporting Violations of Drinking-Water Standards" [7]

"A government report released Tuesday says states are underreporting violations of federal drinking-water standards, preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing rules aimed at protecting public health."

Source: E2 Wire [8], 07/20/2011

Shark Week To Trigger Media Feeding Frenzy July 31 [9]

Shark Week may once have been an effort to relive "Jaws" — but in more recent years Discovery has used the event as a chance to educate the public about sharks, build awareness of the threats they face, and explain the need to conserve them.

EPA To Issue Long Overdue Standards for Oil & Gas Facilities [10]

Two and a half years after being sued, EPA is under a twice-extended court deadline to release by July 28, 2011, proposed standards which will address air toxics from oil production facilities and natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage facilities.

EPA May Finally Release Final Ozone Standards [11]

The standards were initially scheduled to be released in August 2010, then October 2010, after EPA determined that the ones approved during the George W. Bush administration weren't grounded in science, didn't protect public health with an adequate margin of safety, and didn't protect the environment.

"Gov’t Official’s Associates Got Big Contracts After the BP Oil Spill" [12]

The president of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish lambasted as untrue a ProPublica report that local officials -- nicknamed "spillionaires" -- had cashed in by manipulating cleanup contracts after the BP oil spill. New documents, however, support ProPublica's investigative findings, and raise questions about whether the official testified truthfully under oath before Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-CA) House Oversight Committee.

Source: ProPublica [13], 07/19/2011

"Earthquake Risks Probed at U.S. Nuclear Plants" [14]

"When an earthquake launched a tsunami that devastated a Japanese nuclear complex in March, U.S. regulators quickly reassured the public that American reactors were built to withstand the expected severity of earthquakes in their areas. Privately, though, internal emails from March show staffers at the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission fretted about the public attention on the potential earthquake vulnerability of some U.S. plants."

Source: Wall St. Journal [15], 07/19/2011

"More Polar Bear Cubs Die As Arctic Ice Melts" [16]

"Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habitat melts appear to have a higher mortality rate than cubs that didn't have to swim as far, a new study reports."

Source: Reuters [17], 07/19/2011

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