"Contract Awarded for First US Oil Sands Mine"
"Engineering firm Kellogg Brown & Root has been awarded a project and construction management contract for the US’ first commercial-level oil sands project."
Source: TCE Today, 01/31/2014
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"Deadline Set for Federal Coal Ash Regulation"
"ASHEVILLE — The Environmental Protection Agency will establish rules for coal ash disposal, handing environmental groups a long-sought win and setting the stage for debate over whether coal ash should be regulated as hazardous waste."
Source: Asheville Citizen-Times, 01/31/2014
"New Study: Babies Near Gas Wells More Likely To Have Birth Defects"
"Women who live near natural gas wells in rural Colorado are more likely to have babies with neural tube and congenital heart defects, according to a new study."
Source: EHN, 01/31/2014
Green Groups Criticize Obama's Energy Strategy
"WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is sticking to a fossil-fuel dependent energy policy, delivering a blow to a monthslong, behind-the-scenes effort by nearly every major environmental group to convince the White House that the policy is at odds with his goals on global warming."
Source: AP, 01/31/2014
Shell Says No Arctic Offshore Drilling in 2014
Shell CEO Ben van Beurden ruled out drilling in Alaskan offshore waters during 2014 -- as part of a restructuring aimed at restoring falling profits.
Source: NY Times, 01/30/2014
"Industry in North Dakota to Cut Flared Natural Gas"
"HOUSTON — Faced with growing criticism and lawsuits, an oil industry task force representing hundreds of companies in North Dakota pledged on Wednesday to make an all-out effort to capture almost all the natural gas that is being flared in the Bakken shale oil field by the end of the decade."
Source: NY Times, 01/30/2014
"Job Aid Zones Face a New Test in Coal Country"
"HAZARD, Ky. — Joseph Nantz still looks back fondly at his job as a heavy machinery operator at the mountaintop coal mine here, helping to blast and cart away layers of rock to reveal seams of coal and then restore the rubble for a handsome $24 an hour."
Source: NY Times, 01/29/2014
"House, Senate Leaders See Swift Passage of US Farm Bill"
"WASHINGTON -- Leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees are optimistic that the long-overdue U.S. farm bill will pass, although the House of Representatives vote set for Wednesday could be the more difficult hurdle."
Source: Reuters, 01/29/2014
"In the State of the Union, Obama Pledges Strong Action on Climate"
"During President Obama’s speech tonight, he announced many different ways he would use the executive branch to pursue strong action on climate change. For longtime readers, this is old hat by now; I’ve been over how the EPA can use its pollution authority to cut back on carbon emissions several times. The policy framework hasn’t changed."
Source: Wash Post, 01/29/2014
"Company Struggles to Keep U.S. in the Uranium Enrichment Game"
"EUNICE, N.M. — While the only American-owned company that enriches uranium prepares for bankruptcy, its competitor is zooming ahead with construction of what it describes as a cluster of far more economical and efficient new centrifuges."
Source: NY Times, 01/28/2014
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