"The Life and Death of Desert Rock"
"The Navajo Nation's proposed coal plant always rested on shaky ground. Now, it may collapse entirely."
Source: High Country News, 08/18/2010
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"AP Enterprise: Old-Style Coal Plants Expanding"
"Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come."
Source: AP, 08/17/2010
"Old Fuel Spill Sparks Water Contamination Fears in South Bibb County"
"A soil and groundwater cleanup at the site of a 30-year-old jet fuel spill in south Bibb County has alerted neighbors for the first time to the water contamination in their community."
Source: Macon Telegraph, 08/16/2010
"EPA Considers Expanding Fracturing Study To Air Quality"
"Recently retired Environmental Protection Agency environmental engineer Weston Wilson is best known for criticizing his employer’s 2004 finding that hydraulic fracturing poses little or no risk to domestic groundwater. Now, the Denver EPA whistleblower is encouraged by the agency’s interest in studying the natural gas development procedure’s potential impacts on air quality as well."
Source: Grand Junction Sentinel, 08/16/2010
"A Battle in Mining Country Pits Coal Against Wind"
Residents of West Virginia's Raleigh County hope to save Coal River Mountain from being destroyed by mountaintop removal mining by building a wind energy project there.
Source: NYTimes, 08/16/2010
"Entering a Thicket, Engineers Quiz Oil Regulators"
"Delving into the gritty details of how offshore drilling is regulated, a National Academy of Engineering inquiry into the Deepwater Horizon well blowout found a big hole in oversight during a hearing on Thursday."
Source: Green (NYT), 08/13/2010
"Calif. Desert on Pace to Become World's Solar Capital"
"Southern California is poised to become the world's solar power capital as the Obama administration continues to stamp its approval on large-scale renewable energy projects across the Mojave and Colorado deserts."
Source: Greenwire, 08/13/2010
"BP to Pay Record Fine for Refinery"
"BP has agreed to pay a record $50.6 million fine to the federal government for safety violations found by regulators last year at its troubled refinery in Texas City, Tex., where 15 workers died in a 2005 explosion."
Source: NYTimes, 08/13/2010
"Hollywood Greens Up With Environmental Database"
"Television and movie makers have no excuse for not jumping on the 'green' movement bandwagon. A new website with resources on everything from recycling sets to cruelty-free mascara makes it simple to do so."
Source: Reuters, 08/12/2010
"Ted Stevens' Environmental Legacy"
The death of Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator, marks the loss of a great influence over environmental and energy policy for the better part of a half century. Stevens devoted much of his time in the U.S. Senate from 1977 to 2009 to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR) for petroleum development.
Source: Mother Nature Network, 08/11/2010
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