"Big Break for Big Oil, Larger Burden for Taxpayers"
Taxpayers can't escape paying what they owe the U.S. Treasury. But for big oil companies who owe royalties, it's another matter.
Source: Center for Public Integrity, 04/19/2011
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"Trauma And Controversy: Chernobyl's Health Legacy"
"Every year, Volodymyr Palkin spends at least two months in a Kiev hospital. He was one of hundreds of thousands of rescue workers sent to fight the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and says his health has been permanently ruined by his work."
Source: AFP, 04/19/2011
"TVA Moving Away From Coal-Fired Power"
"The Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to shutter 18 coal-fired units at three power plants and make major improvements at 10 other sites, in a deal that's being called one of the largest pollution reductions agreements in the nation's history."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 04/15/2011
"Youth at Environment Summit Unhappy With Obama Policies"
Some 10,000 young activists descend on Washington, DC, this weekend to train, network, lobby, and demonstrate on climate change in an event called Power Shift. On dirty energy, they suspect President Obama has goe over to the dark side.
Source: Wash Post, 04/15/2011
"Experts Fear Another Oil Disaster"
"With everything Big Oil and the government have learned in the year since the Gulf of Mexico disaster, could it happen again? Absolutely, according to an Associated Press examination of the industry and interviews with experts on the perils of deep-sea drilling."
Source: AP, 04/15/2011
Japan Orders TEPCO To Pay Compensation; Evacuees Say It's Not Enough
"The operator of Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant said Friday it would pay an initial $12,000 for each household forced to evacuate because of leaking radiation — a handout some of the displaced slammed as too little."
Source: AP, 04/15/2011
"AP: Pennsylvania Accused of Rubber-Stamping Gas Permits"
"Pennsylvania environmental regulators say they spend as little as 35 minutes reviewing each of the thousands of applications for natural gas well permits they get each year from drillers intent on tapping the state's lucrative and vast Marcellus Shale reserves."
Source: AP, 04/14/2011
"GOP Marks Oil Spill Anniversary With Drilling Push"
"We're one week away from the first anniversary of the worst oil spill in the nation's history, and to commemorate it, House Republicans spent Wednesday marking up a trio of bills that would dramatically increase drilling in the US."
Source: Mother Jones, 04/14/2011
"Japanese Officials on Defensive as Nuclear Alert Level Rises"
"Japanese officials struggled through the day on Tuesday to explain why it had taken them a month to disclose large-scale releases of radioactive material in mid-March at a crippled nuclear power plant, as the government and an electric utility disagreed on the extent of continuing problems there."
Source: NY Times, 04/13/2011
"GOP Wins Deep Cuts in Environment Spending"
"In negotiating the budget deal that averted a government shutdown, Democrats and the White House claimed a big victory in preventing Republicans from blocking a set of environmental regulations. But as details of the compromise became known Tuesday, it was clear Republicans had won deep reductions in spending at the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 04/13/2011
