"U.S. Fines BP for Misreporting Gas Production"
"The Interior Department has fined BP America $5.2 million for filing false reports related to gas production on Indian tribal lands in southwest Colorado."
Source: Green (NYT), 07/01/2010
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"Senate Panel Votes To End Oil Spill Liability Cap"
"Congress on Wednesday took major steps to rein in Big Oil's offshore drilling practices, as one Senate panel voted to lift all caps on liability in oil spills and another moved to deny offshore leases to companies with poor track records."
Source: Reuters, 07/01/2010
Deputies Blocking Media Access Literally Work For BP
News media and activists for weeks have reported how federal and local officials have barred them from reporting the Gulf oil spill story from public beaches -- even though they have a legal right to be there. Now Mother Jones' Mac McClelland quotes the Terrebonn Parish Sheriff's office saying some 40 of the deputies enforcing BP'S illegal ban are being paid to work in uniform for BP during their off-duty hours.
Source: Mother Jones, 07/01/2010
"Louisiana Governor Seals Oil-Spill Records"
Louisian Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed Republican-sponsored state legislation that would have made public all records from his office related to the BP Gulf oil spill.
Source: Green (NYT), 07/01/2010
Exposure at Ontario Nuclear Plant Prompts Industry-Wide Probe
"Emerging details of accidental radiation exposure at an Ontario nuclear power plant have triggered an order to investigate the possibility of similar incidents across the country, while raising doubts about safety at Canada’s only privately owned operator."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 06/30/2010
"Getting Help From the Press"
A Pew Charitable Trusts workshop in the Netherlands Antilles in 2002 was supposed to be to train scientists in how to deal with the media. But did it amount to a junket that helped spin stories in a way that put out Pew's message on depleted fisheries?
Source: Gloucester Times, 06/30/2010
"Health of Exxon Valdez Cleanup Workers Was Never Studied"
"You'd think that more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists would know what, if any, long-term health dangers face the thousands of workers needed to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill. You'd be wrong."
Source: McClatchy, 06/30/2010
"Oil Rigs and the Fishermen Who Love Them"
"Louisiana's fishing industry is getting slammed by the BP spill. So why does it still support offshore drilling?"
Source: Mother Jones, 06/30/2010
California's Monterey Peninsula Turns to Desalination for Water
People on the Monterey Peninsula face rising water bills as the California state water board forces their supplier to turn to desalination.
Source: Monterey Weekly, 06/30/2010
"Warning About Strawberry Field Chemical Ignored, Scientists Say"
"California pesticide regulators plan to approve a new agricultural chemical called methyl iodide for the state's coastal strawberry fields, allowing levels of exposure that the state's own experts say will put farmworkers and bystanders at risk."
Source: California Watch, 06/30/2010
