"Obama to Feds: Bulk up on Green Power"
"President Obama on Thursday will order the federal government to use renewables for 20 percent of its electricity needs by 2020."
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 12/05/2013
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Enbridge May Have To Boost Pipeline Safety in Michigan After Violations
"Michigan environmental officials are drafting a settlement with Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge Inc. over a series of violations of the state's water laws that occurred earlier this year."
Source: InsideClimate News, 12/05/2013
"Canada Panel Urges Better Response Plan for Oil Spills"
"Canada must be better prepared to respond to major oil spills if more crude starts to flow in pipelines to the country's Pacific Coast, a government panel said on Tuesday, as fears of a major marine disaster grow."
Source: Reuters, 12/05/2013
"Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon"
"WASHINGTON — More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming."
Source: NY Times, 12/05/2013
"Obama OKs Pipeline That Will Help Canada’s Tar-Sands Industry"
"The week before Thanksgiving, the Obama administration quietly approved a pipeline project that will cross the U.S.-Canada border and benefit the tar-sands industry. But not that pipeline."
Source: Grist, 12/05/2013
Ethanol's Rise, Conservation's Demise Spur Prairie Habitat Losses
"BISMARCK, N.D. -- As pheasant season opened this fall, the news reports were grim: Fewer birds were expected across the Dakotas, their numbers most likely thinned by a rainy summer nesting season and an early fall blizzard."
Source: Greenwire, 12/05/2013
"Duke’s Coal Ash Kills, Deforms Fish, Study Says"
"Pollution from coal ash at a Duke Energy power plant in Wilmington kills hundreds of thousands of young fish a year and deforms many more, says a study commissioned by environmental groups that are suing Duke."
Source: Charlotte Observer, 12/04/2013
Idaho Power Customers Won't Pay For Coal Pollution Controls ... For Now
"A week after opponents of coal-fired electricity flooded the chambers of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, regulators have denied a bid by Idaho Power to charge its customers $130 million to help implement mandated pollution controls for two of four generators at the Jim Bridger coal plant near Rock Springs, Wyo., where the utility company is part owner."
Source: Boise Weekly, 12/04/2013
"Indigenous Canadian Fracking Protesters Refuse To Back Down"
"Demonstrators defy court injunction intended to keep them from interfering with Texas-based company’s seismic testing."
Source: Aljazeera, 12/04/2013
"White House Enviro Council Chairwoman Sutley Stepping Down"
"White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley will step down in February, marking the almost complete turnover of President Obama's top environment and energy officials."
Source: National Journal, 12/04/2013
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