"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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"Chinese Fleets Illegally Fish in West African Waters, Greenpeace Says"
"Chinese fishing fleets, driven by plummeting catches close to home, are flocking to distant West African waters, where they engage in ecologically ruinous bottom trawling, subterfuge and other illegal activities that threaten marine resources in a region already under pressure from overfishing, according to a report issued on Wednesday by Greenpeace."
Source: NY Times, 05/21/2015
"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
"Obama Tells Coast Guard Grads Climate Change Threatens U.S."
"Rising seas and thawing permafrost caused by warmer global temperatures threaten U.S. military bases and will change the way the U.S. armed services defend the country, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 05/21/2015
House Insists Congressional Research Service Reports Be Secret
It's not a mistake. Congress really doesn't want you to read those excellent explainers on public issues produced by experts at the Congressional Research Service (CRS). We know this because a House Appropriations subcommittee specifically restated that CRS was not to publish its reports.
What You're Not Supposed To Know About Secret Environmental Treaty
The public is not allowed to know the terms of the draft Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact likely to come up for a Senate vote this year. Yet the Senate has already begun voting on terms for considering the treaty, which may allow other nations to override U.S. health, safety, and environmental protection laws. Fortunately, WikiLeaks has already published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the TPP treaty.
Is Wyoming Ban on Reporting Environmental Harm Unconstitutional?
A newly enacted Wyoming law seems to be aimed at criminalizing the collection and reporting of stream pollution or other environmental harm. It creates a unique new category of crime called "data trespass." Just what the law, signed in March by Gov. Matt Mead (R), means or does is being debated hotly.
