"Koch Pipeline Co. Oil Spill Reported Near Austin, Texas"
"Authorities in Texas confirmed about 400 barrels of crude oil spilled near Austin from a pipeline owned by Koch Pipeline Co."
Source: InsideClimate News, 10/31/2013
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"State EPA Files Complaint Against Southeast Side Waste Handler"
"Faced with complaints about black clouds of dust swirling into two Chicago neighborhoods, state environmental regulators are cracking down on one of the companies piling up huge mounds of refinery waste on the Southeast Side."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 10/31/2013
"Looking for a Way Around Keystone XL, Canadian Oil Hits the Rails"
"HOUSTON -- Over the past two years, environmentalists have chained themselves to the White House fence and otherwise coalesced around stopping the Keystone XL pipeline as their top priority in the fight against global warming. But even if President Obama rejects the pipeline, it might not matter much. Oil companies are already building rail terminals to deliver oil from western Canada to the United States, and even to Asia."
Source: NY Times, 10/31/2013
"Coal Industry's Go-To Law Firm Withheld Evidence of Black Lung"
"BECKLEY, W.Va. -- The stately, wood-paneled chamber in the federal building here unsettled Gary Fox and his wife, Mary. Fox was used to the dusty caverns of the mines in the southern part of the state, where he'd spent more than 25 years working underground in the heart of Appalachian coal country. They had never been in a courtroom before."
Source: Center for Public Integrity, 10/31/2013
"'Lost World' of Australian Rainforest Yields Up Three New Species"
"Scientists have discovered three new species of animals in a rainforest 'lost world' in Australia, protected for millions of years by almost impenetrable stacks of granite boulders."
Source: Reuters, 10/30/2013
Artist Blacklisted by Canada Over Climate Criticism Takes Show to US
"'American policymakers need to understand just who they will be doing business with if they approve the Keystone,' says environmental artist Franke James."
Source: InsideClimate News, 10/30/2013
"Toxic Waste Weighs on Ex-Mafia Man's Mind"
"The Italian Senate is investigating a cluster of cancers near Naples which may have been caused by the mafia's dumping of toxic waste. It's a question that has long been on the conscience of one former mafia boss, who says it was not the violence but pollution that made him turn police informer."
Source: BBC News, 10/30/2013
"Russia Breaks 'Zero Waste' Olympic Pledge"
As a centerpiece of its bid to hold the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia boldly promised a "Zero Waste" program. State-owned companies are already systematically and publicly violating that pledge.
Source: AP, 10/30/2013
USDA Speed-Up Poultry-Processing Lines Could Raise Risk of Bird Abuse
"Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped into scalding water, Agriculture Department records show."
Source: Wash Post, 10/30/2013
"Scientists: Asian Carp Breeding In Great Lake Tributaries"
"Scientists have confirmed for the first time that at least one variety of Asian carp is living and breeding in the Great Lakes watershed, where it threatens stocks of native fish."
Source: NPR, 10/30/2013
