"Oil Prices Jump After OPEC Fails To Increase Production Quotas"
"Motorists could face higher costs at the gas pump, analysts said, as oil prices jumped after a meeting of OPEC ministers dissolved into bickering."
Source: LA Times, 06/10/2011
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"AEP Lays Out Power-Plant Closings To Meet Proposed EPA Rules"
"Proposed federal clean-air rules could have a profound impact on American Electric Power, leading to an increase in electricity bills, the closing or partial closing of 11 power plants and the loss of 600 jobs, the company said."
Source: Columbus Dispatch, 06/10/2011
"EPA Seeks Expanded Review of Proposed Oil Sands Pipeline"
"U.S. EPA raised significant concerns today with the environmental effects of a controversial $7 billion pipeline proposal, emboldening the plan's critics and upping the ante for political clashes over Canadian oil sands crude that risk derailing the project for good."
Source: Greenwire, 06/09/2011
"Pollution Worsens Kids' Asthma, But Efforts To Cut It Split Congress"
"Summer air pollution could trigger more asthma attacks for children who live in industrial cities, and the Environmental Protection Agency would like stricter rules to cut smog."
Source: McClatchy, 06/09/2011
Oil Falls To $98 as OPEC Weighs Output Hike
"Oil prices fell to near $98 a barrel Wednesday amid signs OPEC may raise its crude production quotas at a meeting in Vienna."
Source: AP, 06/08/2011
"Wind Power Turbines in Altamont Pass Threaten Protected Birds"
"Scores of golden eagles have been killed after striking the thousands of wind turbines in the Bay Area, raising questions about California's move toward alternative power."
Source: LA Times, 06/07/2011
"As Decision on Grand Canyon Mining Nears, Sides Line Up"
"A moratorium on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon expires in six weeks, and the Interior Department is under pressure from conservation groups and mining companies over what to do about it."
Source: McClatchy, 06/07/2011
"TransCanada Says Keystone Resumes Shipping Crude Oil"
"TransCanada Corp's 591,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone pipeline resumed shipping crude oil, one week after being shut by a leak at a Kansas pumping station, the Calgary-based company said in a statement."
Source: Reuters, 06/07/2011
"Spokane Tribe Members Worked Gladly in Uranium Mines"
"'I watch them die, young and old,' [Spokane tribal gravedigger Harold] Campbell said. 'I think it’s caused by the radiation.' The radiation is from the Northwest’s only open-pit uranium mines -- an all-but-forgotten chapter of Washington’s Cold War history."
Source: Spokane Spokesman-Review, 06/06/2011
"Barbour Blames Cost Of BP Disaster On 'Chocolate Pelican' Coverage"
Former energy lobbyist and GOP presidential non-candidate Gov. Haley Barbour (MS) at a House hearing Thursday blamed the devastation of the Gulf oil spill not on BP, but on the news media for showing a "chocolate pelican."
Source: Think Progress, 06/03/2011
