"Coal Ash Rule Heads To White House for Final Review"
"The nation’s first-ever regulations on the storage and disposal of coal ash have been sent to the White House for final review."
Source: The Hill, 10/29/2014
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"U.S. Oil Export Battle Heats Up as Drillers Group To Fight Ban"
"More than a dozen oil producers have joined to lobby the federal government to reverse the 40-year-old ban on U.S. crude exports, a move that supporters say would create jobs and keep the energy boom alive, a spokesman for one of the companies and a lobbyist for another one said on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 10/29/2014
Young Voters Like Pro-Environment Candidates, But Will They Vote?
"Young voters are much more likely than senior citizens to say they'll vote for candidates who support cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting renewable energy, according to a poll released Tuesday by the University of Texas at Austin."
Source: Huffington Post, 10/29/2014
"Gas Prices Dropping. Where Are the Lowest Prices?"
"A national survey of gas prices reports that the average cost of U.S. regular grade gas dropped 18 cents per gallon in the last two weeks."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/28/2014
"Shell Seeks 5 More Years for Arctic Oil Drilling Drive"
"Royal Dutch Shell Plc is asking the Obama administration for five more years to explore for oil off Alaska’s coast, saying set backs and legal delays may push the start of drilling past the 2017 expiration of some leases."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/28/2014
"BP Spill Left Big Oily 'Bathtub Ring' on Seafloor"
"The BP oil spill left an oily "bathub ring" on the sea floor that's about the size of Rhode Island, new research shows."
Source: AP, 10/28/2014
Last U.S. Coal-Fired Ship Finally Stops Dumping Ash Into Lake Michigan
"The 2014 season for Lake Michigan's only coal-powered passenger and car ferry comes to a close Sunday, signaling the end of the controversial practice of dumping coal ash into the Great Lake. When the vessel resumes operations in 2015, it will no longer release the waste material into those waters."
Source: Huffington Post, 10/27/2014
"Oil Gives Kurds a Path to Independence, and Conflict With Baghdad"
"KIRKUK, Iraq — Roughly two dozen huge oil tankers are idly turning figure eights around the Mediterranean or on the high seas, loaded with oil pumped from wells in Iraqi Kurdistan but with nowhere to legally offload it."
Source: NY Times, 10/27/2014
"'Bomb Trains': A Crude Awakening For Richmond, Calif."
"Local activists try to halt the shipment of explosive Bakken crude oil through their neighborhoods."
Source: Aljazeera America, 10/24/2014
"Green Groups Say EPA Underestimates Methane Leaks From Fracking"
"The EPA touted decreased methane leaks during fracking, but environmentalists say the numbers are skewed."
Source: Aljazeera America, 10/24/2014
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