"Sierra Snowpack Falls Short"
"Snow-surveying crews across the Sierra are seeing bad news up close this week. California has about half a snowpack."
Source: Fresno Bee, 03/28/2013
Energy & Fuel
"Justice Department Is Investigating Shell's Arctic Drilling"
"The Coast Guard has asked the Justice Department to investigate possible pollution violations by both the drilling rigs Shell used in its botched efforts to explore for oil last year in the Arctic Ocean waters off the northern coast of Alaska."
Source: McClatchy, 03/28/2013
"Train Hauling Canadian Oil Derails in Minnesota"
"A mile-long train hauling oil from Canada derailed and leaked 30,000 gallons of crude in western Minnesota on Wednesday, as debate rages over the environmental risks of transporting tar sands across the border."
Source: Reuters, 03/28/2013
"IMF Urges Phasing Out $1.9 Trillion in Global Energy Subsidies"
"Energy subsidies cost governments from the U.S. to Egypt $1.9 trillion, discourage private investment and help wealthy consumers more than the poor, according to a study by International Monetary Fund staff."
Source: Bloomberg, 03/28/2013
Fracking Disclosure Loses a Round in Wyoming
Natrona County District Judge Catherine Wilking ruled March 25, 2013, that a company could withhold as trade secret the ingredients used in the fluids it pumped under high pressure to fracture gas- and oil-bearing rock. Environmentalists had sought to make the ingredient list public.
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Court Lifts Settlement Secrecy in Pennsylvania Fracking Case
The unsealed documents revealed that the potential plaintiffs had received $750,000 from frackers Range Resources, which has been accused of high-handed tactics. The case is important in several respects — even beyond the broader controversy over sealing of civil settlements.
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State Department KXL Report Secrecy Hides Conflict, Criticism
The State Department is trying to hide at least two different kinds of information about its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL pipeline, including graying out key information in the work histories of people involved in the consultation process.
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DOT Proposes Penalty For Exxon Pipeline Spill into Yellowstone River
"BILLINGS, Mont. -- Federal regulators proposed $1.7 million in civil penalties against Exxon Mobil Corp. on Monday for safety violations linked to a pipeline rupture that spilled an estimated 63,000 gallons of crude oil into Montana's scenic Yellowstone River."
Source: AP, 03/26/2013
"Texas Fracker Accused of Bully Tactics Against Foes"
"When a Texas landowner took his fear that a gas driller had poisoned his well to federal regulators, the company, Range Resources Corp., turned around and sued him for conspiring 'to harm Range.'"
Source: Bloomberg, 03/26/2013
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