"A Watchdog’s Warning on Nuclear Waste"
This week a blue-ribbon commission on nuclear waste will hold two days of hearings on alternatives to the now-stalled Yucca Mountain disposal site.
Source: Green (NYT), 07/13/2010
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"In BP’s Record, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders"
A billion-dollar BP oil rig named Thunder Horse almost sunk in the Gulf after a 2005 hurricane. "The problems at Thunder Horse were not an anomaly, but a warning that BP was taking too many risks and cutting corners in pursuit of growth and profits, according to analysts, competitors and former employees. Despite a catalog of crises and near misses in recent years, BP has been chronically unable or unwilling to learn from its mistakes, an examination of its record shows."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2010
"Puget Sound Waters Now More Corrosive"
"The waters in Puget Sound's main basin are acidifying as fast as those along the Washington Coast, where wild oysters have not reproduced since 2005."
Source: Seattle Times, 07/13/2010
"Climate Change Can Be Hazardous To Your Health"
"From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that can throw our nation's ill-prepared public health infrastructure 'back to the 1890s,' according to experts."
Source: Daily Climate, 07/13/2010
"Dioxin Science Wars" Heat Up
"The latest skirmish in the decades-long scientific battle over the health risks of the most toxic form of dioxin is heating up."
Source: C&EN, 07/13/2010
Media Give Climate Science Exoneration Less Ink Than False Charges
Mainstream news media have given far less coverage to the five major panels that have debunked the "climategate" stolen-email flap kicked up by the fossil-fuel blogosphere than they did to the original charges now proven false.
Source: Huffington Post, 07/13/2010
"Oil Spill Commission Members Let BP Exec off Easy"
The co-chairmen of a presidential commission probing the BP oil spill did not ask any probing questions of the one BP exec to testify at the panel's first hearing Monday.
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 07/13/2010
"Coast Guard Lifts Ban on News Coverage Near Oil Spill Boom"
"The Coast Guard has modified a policy on safety zones around boom deployed on oiled coastlines, a policy news organizations had said unnecessarily restricted coverage of the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and efforts to clean it up."
Source: AP, 07/13/2010
"U.S. Issues Revised Offshore Drilling Ban"
"Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued revised rules on Monday for a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, replacing an earlier one that had been declared invalid by federal courts."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2010
BP Testing New Cap To See If It Can Hold in Oil
"In perhaps the most significant development since BP's runaway well began spewing oil in the Gulf of Mexico 85 days ago, crews placed a tight-fitting cap over the leak Monday evening designed to give the company its greatest chance so far at stopping the flow of oil into the sea."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 07/13/2010
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