"Fracking Films Reflect Twists in Drilling Debate"
"PITTSBURGH -- The boom in natural gas drilling has cast two opposing documentary filmmakers in unlikely roles."
Source: AP, 07/22/2013
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"Poll: Majority Backs Obama Plan to Limit Carbon Emissions"
"WASHINGTON, DC -- A majority of American voters polled in a nationwide survey say they support President Barack Obama’s new plan to address climate change and protect public health by cutting the amount of carbon emitted in the United States."
Source: ENS, 07/22/2013
"Federal Judge Denies BP Bid To Suspend Payments on Oil Spill Claims"
"A federal judge Friday denied British oil giant BP's bid for a preliminary injunction that would have allowed the company to temporarily suspend payments related to claims from the 2010 oil spill until an investigation into alleged fraud in the multibillion-dollar claims payment program is complete."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 07/22/2013
"Oil Spills: Crude Mishaps on Trains Spike as Rail Carries More Oil"
"The number of spills and other accidents from railroad cars carrying crude oil has skyrocketed in recent years, up from one or two a year early in the previous decade to 88 last year."
Source: EnergyWire, 07/22/2013
"Davis-Besse Among 12 Plants at Risk, Says Analyst"
"OAK HARBOR, Ohio — Davis-Besse is identified in a new economic report as one of a dozen U.S. nuclear reactors most likely to be closed by their utilities before their licenses expire because of changing energy markets, including falling natural gas prices, rising costs of nuclear operations, repairs, and post-Fukushima retrofits."
Source: Toledo Blade, 07/19/2013
"TransCanada Rebuffs EPA’s Call for Keystone Clean Energy"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says TransCanada Corp. should be required to buy renewable power to run pumps along the route of its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a measure the company said is unworkable and unnecessary."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/19/2013
"DEP to AP: Study: Fracking Chemicals Didn't Spread"
"A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press."
Source: AP, 07/19/2013
"Climate-Related Power Outages Aren't Just a Coastal Problem"
"Eerie images of flooded, pitch-black lower Manhattan following Superstorm Sandy made it clear just how stark an effect climate change and extreme weather can have on our everyday access to electricity."
Source: Atlantic, 07/19/2013
"Ex-Im Bank Won't Finance Vietnam Coal-Fired Power Plant"
"The U.S. Export-Import Bank board of directors voted on Thursday not to proceed with the financing of U.S. exports to help build a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam, following a plea from U.S. environmental groups to stop the project."
Source: Reuters, 07/19/2013
"Russia Builds Floating Nuclear Power Plants"
"ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- So much for the lessons of Fukushima. Never mind oil spills, the Russian Federation is preparing an energy initiative that, if it has problems, will inject nuclear material into the maritime environment."
Source: ENS, 07/18/2013
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