"Energy Week Ahead: Sold-Out Hearings for EPA Climate Plan"
"The nation gets its chance this week to blast or praise the Environmental Protection Agency’s sweeping plan to cut climate-warming emissions by 2030."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/29/2014
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"Promises of Easier Nuclear Construction Fall Short"
"WAYNESBORO, Ga. — The U.S. nuclear industry has started building its first new plants in decades using prefabricated Lego-like blocks meant to save time and money and revive the once promising energy source."
Source: AP, 07/29/2014
"Libya Oil Depot Fire: Officials Call for International Help"
"A Libya oil depot fire spread uncontrolled Monday, after the oil depot was caught in the middle of militias battling for control of an airfield. The Libya oil depot fire had spread to a second depot by Monday afternoon, according to the government."
Source: AP, 07/29/2014
"Congressional Watchdog Urges EPA To Step Up Actions on Fracking"
"The Government Accountability Office is calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to step up enforcement of water contamination and seismic activity associated with fracking, the high-pressure injection of fluids into wells to extract oil and natural gas."
Source: McClatchy, 07/29/2014
"Not in My Backyard: US Sending Dirty Coal Abroad"
"NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Coal from Appalachia rumbles into this port city, 150 railroad cars at a time, bound for the belly of the massive cargo ship Prime Lily. The ship soon sets sail for South America, its 80,000 tons of coal destined for power plants and factories, an export of American energy — and pollution."
Source: AP, 07/29/2014
"BP Oil Spill Dispersants Still in Environment"
"A common ingredient in human laxatives and in the controversial dispersants that was used to break down oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill is still being found in tar balls four years later along Gulf Coast beaches including Perdido Key."
Source: Pensacola New Journal, 07/28/2014
"Oil Drilling In North Dakota Raises Concerns About Radioactive Waste"
"Every weekday, about a dozen large garbage trucks peel away from the oil boom that has spread through western North Dakota to bump along a gravel road to the McKenzie County landfill."
Source: LA Times, 07/28/2014
"Arctic Oil Well Blowout Could Spread More Than 1,000 km: WWF Study"
"The WWF contracted RPS Applied Science Associates to model 22 different oil spill scenarios and map the spread of the oil, potential impact on the water and shoreline, and interaction with sea ice, wildlife and the surrounding ecology."
Source: Reuters, 07/28/2014
"USGS Halts Research on Mountaintop Removal’S Public-Health Effects"
"Two years ago, Bill Orem and his team of researchers were setting up air monitors in the yards and on the porches of residents in Artie, a small Raleigh County community surrounded by mountaintop removal mines."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 07/28/2014
"Geothermal Industry Grows, With Help From Oil and Gas Drilling"
"Geothermal energy — tapping into heat deep underground and using it to produce power — is sometimes described as a forgotten renewable. It languishes in the shadows of better-known sources like wind and the sun, and in 2011 it accounted for less than 1 percent of electric power worldwide, according to last year’s World Energy Outlook."
Source: NY Times, 07/28/2014
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