"Largest Coal-Fired Plant In NE To Close By 2017"
"BOSTON -- A Massachusetts power plant recently cited by federal regulators as one of the state's heaviest polluters is planning to shut down."
Source: AP, 10/09/2013
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"Kansas Supreme Court Reverses Holcomb Coal Plant Air Permit"
"TOPEKA, Kansas -- The Kansas Supreme Court Friday invalidated the 2010 air pollution permit granted to Sunflower Electric Power Corp. by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment."
Source: ENS, 10/09/2013
"Europe Threatens Gazprom With Antitrust Action"
"The European Union’s top antitrust enforcer on Thursday threatened to formally charge the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom with restricting trade and price gouging, raising the stakes in a two-year investigation that has already created tensions with Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin."
Source: NY Times, 10/08/2013
"BP Spars With U.S. Government Over Size of Gulf of Mexico Spill"
"NEW ORLEANS -- Lawyers for BP Plc and the federal government sparred on Monday over the methods competing teams of scientists used to estimate the size of the company's 2010 oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico."
Source: Reuters, 10/08/2013
"Federal Shutdown Vexes Greens, Pleases Industry"
"Environmental groups are howling, but energy companies are mostly staying mum about the government shutdown and the trench warfare that has paralyzed Washington."
Source: Politico, 10/08/2013
"Heather Zichal Stepping Down as W.H. Climate Chief"
"The White House confirmed Monday that Heather Zichal plans to step down as President Barack Obama’s chief energy and climate adviser."
Source: Politico, 10/08/2013
Residents Want Answers from Wisc. Officicals on Frac Sand Plants
"NEW AUBURN, Wisc. -- Frances Sayles is cleaning her counters and vacuuming her home more often in an attempt to keep a never-ending stream of sand at bay. But it is not just the cleaning that concerns her. She also worries about her health."
Source: WI Ctr for Investigative Journalism, 10/07/2013
"Panel Links Underwater Mapping Sonar To Whale Stranding for 1st Time"
"For the first time, a rigorous scientific investigation has associated a mass whale stranding with a kind of sonar that is widely used to map the ocean floor, a finding that has set off alarms among energy companies and others who say the technology is critical to safe navigation of the planet’s waters."
Source: Wash Post, 10/07/2013
It Continues: 2 Pennsylvania Coal Plants Will Close for Good Next Week
"The coal sector is in its death throes, thanks to cheaper alternatives and a growing distaste for what is the worst of the global-warming fuels. The latest casualties: two coal-burning power plants in Pennsylvania that will pump their last energy into the grid, and cough their last pollution in to the air, this weekend."
Source: Grist, 10/07/2013
"Company Fires Scientist Who Warned of Hanford Waste Site Problems"
"When senior scientist Walter Tamosaitis warned in 2011 about fundamental design flaws at the nation's largest facility to treat radioactive waste in Hanford, Wash., he was assigned to work in a basement room without office furniture or a telephone. On Wednesday, Tamosaitis, an employee of San Francisco-based URS Corp., was laid off from his job after 44 years with the company."
Source: LA Times, 10/07/2013
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