"UN Sends Team To Clean Up Sunderbans Oil Spill in Bangladesh"
"Thick tar clogging 350 sq km of delicate mangrove forest and river delta, home to endangered Bengal tigers and rare dolphins."
Source: AFP, 12/19/2014
Energy & Fuel
"On Nebraska's Farmland, Keystone XL Pipeline Debate Is Personal"
"Drive down gravel Road 22 in Nebraska's York County, past weathered farmhouses and corn cut to stubble in rich, black loam soil, and you'll find a small barn by the side of the road."
Source: NPR, 12/18/2014
"U.S. Imposes Steep Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels"
"The Commerce Department began closing a chapter in a protracted trade conflict with China over solar equipment Tuesday, approving a collection of steep tariffs on imports from China and Taiwan."
Source: NY Times, 12/18/2014
"EPA Rules on Coal Ash May Disappoint Environmentalists, Buoy Industry"
"The federal government is about to announce its first rules for the handling and storage of potentially toxic coal ash, months after tons of the waste spilled into a major river in North Carolina."
Source: McClatchy, 12/18/2014
"Citing Health Risks, Cuomo Bans Fracking in New York State"
"Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration announced on Wednesday that it would ban hydraulic fracturing in New York State because of concerns over health risks, ending years of debate over a method of extracting natural gas."
Source: NY Times, 12/18/2014
Decades of Petrochemical Industry Documents on Hiding Toxicity in Online Archive
The Center for Public Integrity, Columbia University, and City University of New York have just published some 20,000 pages of hitherto unpublished letters, e-mails, presentations, and meeting minutes from the oil and chemical industries in a public database, called "Exposed: Decades of Denial on Poisons."
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Ohio Utilities Seek To Keep Reasons for Public "Bailout" Secret from Public
Three major electric utilities want the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to make ratepayers pay for aging and unprofitable coal and nuclear generation plants in that state. But the ratepayers — the utilities claim — aren't entitled to know whether they might be ripped off.
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Tracking the Fracking Boom
In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Fall), Bobby Magill's special report offers coverage basics and questions to ask when you are reporting on the spread of shale oil and gas development.
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Oil Spill Threatens Bangladesh Mangrove Forest, Rare Animals
"Oil from a wrecked tanker is creating a disaster in the waters of Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the largest contiguous tidal mangrove forest in the world and a haven for a spectacular array of species, including the rare Irrawaddy and Gangetic dolphins and the highly endangered Bengal tiger."
Source: National Geographic, 12/17/2014
"Keystone XL Pipeline May No Longer Make Economic Sense, Experts Say"
"Amid the shouting on Capitol Hill, the wads of campaign cash and the activist careers shaped around the Keystone XL pipeline, the project at the flash point of America's energy debate now confronts a problem bigger than politics. It may no longer pencil out."
12/16/2014
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