Frackers Use Loophole To Avoid Permits for Dangerous Chemicals: Report
"Federal laws meant to protect drinking water require fracking companies to get a permit before using diesel fuel in the drilling process."
Source: Columbus Dispatch, 10/23/2014
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"Environment Is Grabbing Big Role in Ads for Campaigns"
"WASHINGTON — In Michigan, an ad attacking Terri Lynn Land, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, opens with a shot of rising brown floodwaters as a woman says: 'We see it every day in Michigan. Climate change. So why is Terri Lynn Land ignoring the science?'"
Source: NY Times, 10/22/2014
"High Pollution Levels Found Near Ohio Gas Wells"
"A study in a rural Ohio county where oil and gas drilling is booming found air pollution levels near well sites higher than those in downtown Chicago."
Source: AP, 10/22/2014
"More Than 5 Million in State Live Near Oil Or Gas Well, Report Says"
"More than 5 million Californians — most of them in Los Angeles and Kern counties — live near an oil or gas well, and expanding drilling in the state could increase their exposure to health risks, according to a report released Wednesday by a national environmental group."
Source: LA Times, 10/22/2014
'That Stuff Can Get You So Fast' - Deadly Gas on the Rise in Oil Fields
"ODESSA, Texas -- Elaine Beadle initially thought the odor creeping into her home on this city's west side was a sewer leak."
Source: EnergyWire, 10/22/2014
"For E.U. Climate Meeting, Deep Divisions and High Stakes"
"BRUSSELS — The leaders of the 28 members of the European Union are set to meet here on Thursday to reassert their global leadership in climate protection, but they will first need to finesse deep divisions over how to generate and distribute energy."
Source: NY Times, 10/22/2014
"Climate: FERC, Greens Spar Over 'Cursory' Reviews of Gas Projects"
"Climate change activists have opened a new front in their fight against fossil fuels at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission."
Source: Greenwire, 10/21/2014
"A Year After N.D. Oil Spill, Cleanup Goes On"
"BISMARCK, N.D. -- One year after a pipeline rupture flooded a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota with more than 20,000 barrels of crude, Tesoro Corp. is still working around the clock cleaning up the oil spill -- one of the largest to happen onshore in U.S. history."
Source: AP, 10/21/2014
"The Drilling Industry's Explosion Problem"
"Temperatures below 20 degrees Fahrenheit froze the valve on the back of Greg Bish's frack truck. To thaw it, he fetched a blowtorch and put the 4-inch flame to the metal. The explosion blew him 75 feet, over a 7-foot-tall barbed-wire fence, and killed him."
Source: EnergyWire, 10/21/2014
"Tax Credits for Energy Industry Are Under Scrutiny"
"AUSTIN — Susan Combs, the state comptroller, stirred controversy last month when she said Texas’ growing wind energy industry should 'stand on its own two feet.'"
Source: NY Times, 10/20/2014
