"Gas Prices Dropping. Where Are the Lowest Prices?"
"A national survey of gas prices reports that the average cost of U.S. regular grade gas dropped 18 cents per gallon in the last two weeks."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/28/2014
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"Shell Seeks 5 More Years for Arctic Oil Drilling Drive"
"Royal Dutch Shell Plc is asking the Obama administration for five more years to explore for oil off Alaska’s coast, saying set backs and legal delays may push the start of drilling past the 2017 expiration of some leases."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/28/2014
"BP Spill Left Big Oily 'Bathtub Ring' on Seafloor"
"The BP oil spill left an oily "bathub ring" on the sea floor that's about the size of Rhode Island, new research shows."
Source: AP, 10/28/2014
Last U.S. Coal-Fired Ship Finally Stops Dumping Ash Into Lake Michigan
"The 2014 season for Lake Michigan's only coal-powered passenger and car ferry comes to a close Sunday, signaling the end of the controversial practice of dumping coal ash into the Great Lake. When the vessel resumes operations in 2015, it will no longer release the waste material into those waters."
Source: Huffington Post, 10/27/2014
"Oil Gives Kurds a Path to Independence, and Conflict With Baghdad"
"KIRKUK, Iraq — Roughly two dozen huge oil tankers are idly turning figure eights around the Mediterranean or on the high seas, loaded with oil pumped from wells in Iraqi Kurdistan but with nowhere to legally offload it."
Source: NY Times, 10/27/2014
"'Bomb Trains': A Crude Awakening For Richmond, Calif."
"Local activists try to halt the shipment of explosive Bakken crude oil through their neighborhoods."
Source: Aljazeera America, 10/24/2014
"Green Groups Say EPA Underestimates Methane Leaks From Fracking"
"The EPA touted decreased methane leaks during fracking, but environmentalists say the numbers are skewed."
Source: Aljazeera America, 10/24/2014
"Massachusetts, California Lead U.S. In Energy Efficiency"
"Massachusetts, California, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont are the most energy-efficient states in the U.S., according to an annual ranking released Wednesday by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, or ACEEE."
Source: Climate Central, 10/24/2014
"EU Leaders Agree To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 40% By 2030"
"European leaders have struck a broad climate change pact obliging the EU as a whole to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40% by 2030."
Source: Guardian, 10/24/2014
"Energy Companies Stockpiling Drilling Permits Across West"
"Scott Kidwell, a top executive for Concho Resources Inc., came to Capitol Hill in July to urge senators to pass a bipartisan bill to expedite drilling permits on public lands."
Source: Greenwire, 10/24/2014
