Europe's Offshore Wind Hits Record High With Six Months Still To Go
"Europe’s offshore wind power industry has set a record for its biggest ever year just six months into 2015."
Source: Guardian, 07/31/2015
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"U.S. Coast Guard Investigates Oil Slick Off California Coast"
"The U.S. Coast Guard was investigating a large, patchy oil sheen that appeared off the Southern California coast west of Santa Barbara on Wednesday, not far from the site of a petroleum pipeline spill in May, officials said."
Source: Reuters, 07/31/2015
"Interior Launches National Conversation on Federal Coal"
"Top Interior Department officials got an earful in their first of five listening sessions on the future of the federal coal program, which produces about 40 percent of our nation’s coal."
Source: High Country News, 07/31/2015
EPA Poised To Push Carbon Rule Compliance To 2022: Document
"U.S. EPA appears to be leaning toward giving states an extra two years -- until 2022 -- to start cutting carbon emissions from power plants under a final Clean Power Plan rule expected to be rolled out as early as Monday."
Source: EnergyWire, 07/31/2015
"Senate Energy Panel Votes To Lift Oil Export Ban"
"The U.S. Senate Energy Committee on Thursday narrowly passed a bill to lift a 40-year-old ban on the export of crude oil, but the measure faces an uphill battle in getting passed by the full Senate."
Source: Reuters, 07/31/2015
Shell Icebreaker Gets Past Protesters at Portland Bridge
"Just before 6 p.m. Thursday night, Shell Oil's controversial icebreaker MSV Fennica weaved through nine remaining protesters hanging from the St. Johns Bridge and made its way toward the Pacific Ocean."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 07/31/2015
"Could Deep-Earth Microbes Help Us Frack for Oil?"
"MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- On a muddy hill above a World War II ordnance plant that made material for atomic bombs, a fracking crew will drill thousands of feet underground in a search for life itself. The drilling is a hunt for microscopic organisms, first introduced hundreds of millions of years ago, which have evolved to live in the shale 7,000 feet below the ground, at pressures 600 times that of the surface, and temperatures around 160 degrees F."
Source: McClatchy, 07/30/2015
"World Bank Rejects Energy Industry Notion That Coal Can Cure Poverty"
"The World Bank said coal was no cure for global poverty on Wednesday, rejecting a main industry argument for building new fossil fuel projects in developing countries."
Source: Guardian, 07/30/2015
"Obama Will Use Veto To Defend Climate Change Plan If Necessary"
"Barack Obama will use all of his powers – including his veto – to defend his plan to fight climate change, the White House said, on the eve of new rules cutting carbon pollution from power plants."
Source: Guardian, 07/30/2015
"US Sets New Brake Rule for Oil Trains, Two Years After Lac-Megantic"
"Over two years after a runaway freight train derailed, exploded and destroyed much of the small town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing 47, the Obama administration has issued new rules governing breaking procedures for tanker cars carrying volatile cargo."
Source: Aljazeera America, 07/30/2015
