"Revealed: British Government's Plan To Play Down Fukushima"
'Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan.'
Source: Guardian, 07/01/2011
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Industry, Enviros Both Claim Win in Case of Delayed Oil & Gas Leases
"A federal judge in Wyoming yesterday said the government must not delay decisions over whether to issue oil and gas leases in the West but that the Interior Department may refuse to issue leases even after a company has submitted a winning bid."
Source: Greenwire, 07/01/2011
NJ Poised To Ban Fracking, NY To Restart It
"It's been a busy week for anyone following the national debates over hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking,' the controversial method used to cut into shale rock to extract natural gas. In New Jersey, a strong bipartisan majority in both chambers of the legislature approved a bill banning fracking in the state as its neighbor to the north, New York, appeared ready to end its moratorium on the practice."
Source: Mother Jones, 07/01/2011
"How a Natural-Gas Tycoon Tapped Into Corbett"
"In 2004, a flamboyant Oklahoma City multimillionaire took out his hefty checkbook for what you could call the political equivalent of a wildcat well - and he struck a gusher, right here in Pennsylvania. The $450,000 in campaign checks that energy mogul Aubrey McClendon wrote that fall helped elect a man he said he'd never even met - a relatively obscure GOP candidate for Pennsylvania attorney general, Tom Corbett."
Source: Philadelphia Daily News, 06/30/2011
"W.Va. Mine Faked Safety Logs Before Fatal Blast"
"The owner of the West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men last year kept two sets of books on safety conditions -- an accurate one for itself and a sanitized one for the government, federal regulators said Wednesday."
Source: AP, 06/30/2011
Environment & Security: "Pakistan Woefully Unprepared For New Floods"
"It took farmer Ghulam Hussain almost a year to start re-building his house, destroyed last year in floods that left vast swathes of Pakistan underwater, and disrupted the lives of more than 18 million people. Now, his small, two-room mud and brick house -- just a few hundred meters from the Indus River -- is almost complete, but he is worried as to how long it will survive."
Source: Reuters, 06/30/2011
"EPA Finalizes 15% Ethanol Content Label; Critics Vow Challenges"
"U.S. EPA [Tuesday] issued a final rule on how gasoline stations must label fuel with up to 15 percent ethanol content (E15), marking a step toward legal sale of the fuel and drawing criticism from several groups that said the labels will not do enough to prevent consumers from misusing it."
Source: Greenwire, 06/29/2011
"American Climate Skeptic Soon Funded By Oil, Coal Firms"
"Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace."
Source: Reuters, 06/29/2011
Lawmakers Seek Investigation of Natural Gas Industry
"Federal lawmakers called Tuesday on several agencies, including the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, the Energy Information Administration and the Government Accountability Office, to investigate whether the natural gas industry has provided an accurate picture to investors of the long-term profitability of their wells and the amount of gas these wells can produce."
Source: NY Times, 06/29/2011
"White House Considers Big Boost To Fuel Economy"
"The Obama administration is telling American automakers that it would like cars and light trucks to average 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025 — a boost to fuel economy that would save consumers money at the pump and help with global warming but drive up the cost of automobiles."
Source: AP, 06/28/2011
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