"Week Ahead: Energy Bill, Flint Aid -- Take Two"
"Senators are growing increasingly bullish on the prospects of returning to a major energy reform bill and a Flint, Mich., aid package."
Source: The Hill, 03/08/2016
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Oklahoma Puts New Limits on Oil and Gas Wells to Fight Quakes
"Facing a six-year barrage of increasingly large earthquakes, Oklahoma regulators are effectively ordering the state’s powerful oil-and-gas industry to substantially cut back the underground disposal of industry wastes that have caused the tremors across the state."
Source: NY Times, 03/08/2016
"Pits Of Drilling Waste Threaten Water, Air Safety, Report Charges"
"Hundreds of open pits containing toxic waste produced by oil and gas drilling are threatening groundwater in California, and regulators have failed to protect drinking and irrigation water supplies from the danger, an environmental watchdog group concludes in a report set to be released Monday."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 03/08/2016
"Amazonian Tribe In Peru Takes Hostages After Oil Spill"
"An indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon took at least eight public officials hostage to demand help from the central government after an oil spill polluted its lands, authorities said Monday."
Source: Reuters, 03/08/2016
"DEQ Cites Duke For Leaky Coal Ash Ponds"
"Raleigh, N.C. — The state Department of Environmental Quality on Friday issued violations against Duke Energy for allowing wastewater to leak from coal ash basins at 12 facilities."
Source: WRAL, 03/07/2016
"PAC Fronts Formed In Nevada Net Metering Battle"
"Rooftop solar and distributed energy champions have advanced a ballot initiative to restore Nevada’s retail-rate net metering policy. However, they are facing legal challenges from a utility-backed PAC. Expect a vigorous courtroom battle."
Source: Clean Technica, 03/07/2016
"Oregon Poised To Be 1st State To Cut Ties With Coal-Fired Power"
"One of the last actions Oregon lawmakers took before adjourning Thursday was passing a landmark clean-energy bill."
Source: KUOW, 03/07/2016
"Greenland’s Melting Is ‘Feeding On Itself,’ Scientists Say"
"A new scientific study released Thursday has delivered yet another burst of bad news about Greenland — the vast northern ice sheet that contains 20 feet of potential sea level rise. The ice sheet is “darkening,” or losing its ability to reflect both visible and invisible radiation, as it melts more and more, the research finds. That means it’s absorbing more of the sun’s energy — which then drives further melting.
Source: Wash Post, 03/04/2016
"Tribe Says Drilling Project Would Have 'Heartbreaking' Consequences"
"A few miles outside Glacier National Park in northwest Montana is land known as the Badger-Two Medicine, the ancestral home of the Blackfeet tribe. But it's also the site of 18 oil and gas development leases, and an energy company is heading to federal court March 10 to fight for the right to drill there after decades of delay."
Source: NPR, 03/04/2016
US Reaches 'Holy Grail' Of Battery Storage Sought By Musk And Gates
"A US government agency says it has attained the “holy grail” of energy – the next-generation system of battery storage, that has has been hotly pursued by the likes of Bill Gates and Elon Musk."
Source: Guardian, 03/04/2016
