"In Heavily Fracked Ohio County, Unsafe Levels of Toxic Pollutants"
"New study finds fracking releases cancer-causing chemicals into the air many times higher than the EPA considers safe."
Source: InsideClimate News, 05/21/2015
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"Transocean Reaches $212 Million Settlement Over Oil Spill Claims"
"Transocean Ltd. has agreed to a nearly $212 million settlement with Gulf Coast individuals and business owners over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, plaintiff's lawyers said Wednesday (May 20)."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 05/21/2015
"Study Links Dolphin Deaths to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill"
"Lung and adrenal lesions found in dead bottlenose dolphins stranded along the Gulf of Mexico between June 2010 and December 2012 are consistent with the types of damage that marine mammals sustain from exposure to petroleum products after an oil spill, according to a new study published on Wednesday by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
Source: NY Times, 05/21/2015
"US House Republicans Vote To Restrict Research Funding"
"US House Republicans voted to place limits on funding for scientific research, including climate change studies, as they passed legislation that more narrowly defines their priorities."
Source: AFP, 05/21/2015
"Crews Work To Clean California Beach Fouled By Oil Pipeline Spill"
"Cleanup crews fanned out across an oil-fouled California beach on Wednesday to scoop up gobs of petroleum spewed from a burst pipeline in what may be the biggest oil spill to hit the pristine but energy-rich Santa Barbara coastline in 46 years."
Source: Reuters, 05/21/2015
"Climate Change Lands on Agenda of the PTA"
"California PTA adopts resolution on teaching climate science, but its passage nationwide and its impact beyond the state are uncertain."
Source: InsideClimate News, 05/20/2015
"Oil Wastewater Dumped Into Shallow Central Valley Wells"
"California officials have identified 260 oil company wastewater injection wells that are so shallow or so close to wells used for drinking or irrigation that they could threaten the state’s precious groundwater supplies, new data show."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 05/20/2015
"Yucca Mountain Left Out of Senate Funding Bill"
"Senate appropriators have introduced a $35 billion energy and water spending bill that would not fund a nuclear waste depository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain."
Source: The Hill, 05/20/2015
"The Truth Behind Peabody's Campaign To Rebrand Coal as a Poverty Cure"
"The story Linda Jing tells in the video is slick and persuasive: she was a girl from a poor village forced to study by candlelight because there was no electricity until coal-fired power plants arrived, transforming her destiny and that of China."
Source: Guardian, 05/20/2015
Georgia: "DOT Commissioner rejects Palmetto Pipeline"
"Ga. Department of Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry today denied Kinder Morgan’s application for a public needs certificate. Without it, the energy company cannot condemn property along the proposed 210-mile Palmetto Pipeline route in Georgia."
Source: Savannah Morning News, 05/20/2015
