"House Panel Approves Energy Spending Bill"
"The House Appropriations Committee approved a $34 billion spending bill for the Department of Energy (DOE) and Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 06/20/2014
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"Scores Fall Ill Near Louisiana Gas Facility"
"Residents of a rural town east of New Orleans say they are being sickened by a nearby gas and petrochemical facility, and are reaching their third week of pleading with state officials to do something about it."
Source: Aljazeera America, 06/20/2014
"Derelict Oil Wells May Be Major Methane Emitters"
"A study of abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania finds that the hundreds of thousands of such wells in the state may be leaking methane, suggesting that abandoned wells across the country could be a bigger source of climate changing greenhouse gases than previously thought."
Source: Climate Central, 06/20/2014
"Conservation Group Demands US Restore Grizzly Bears To Native Range"
"The outsized, hump-shouldered bruins were hunted, trapped and poisoned to the edge of extinction in the lower 48 states before being added to the federal endangered and threatened species list in 1975."
Source: Reuters, 06/20/2014
"World's Energy Systems Vulnerable To Climate Impacts, Report Warns"
"Generators from nuclear reactors to coal-fired power plants will feel the brunt of the weather changes."
Source: Guardian, 06/20/2014
"In A Global 'War on Coal,' Coal Is Winning"
"Global coal consumption rose 3 percent in 2013, despite efforts in some places to scale back use of the carbon-heavy fuel. Why is it hard to stop depending on coal for energy?"
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 06/20/2014
"Records: Duke Warned About Pipe That Caused Spill"
"RALEIGH, N.C. — Records subpoenaed by federal prosecutors show engineers working for Duke Energy warned the company nearly 30 years before a massive coal ash spill that a stormwater pipe running under an ash dump was made of corrugated metal and needed to be monitored for leaks."
Source: AP, 06/20/2014
"Saving the Sage-Grouse: Can Oil And Conservation Work Together?"
"PINEDALE, Wyo. — The anticline is a tableland of nearly 200,000 acres, the Tetons visible in the distance and, in June, still covered with snow. The plateau is filled with sagebrush that barely reaches the knee, short grass, dirt roads and the occasional oil drill. Beneath its rocky surface are 25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, one of the richest concentrations in the entire United States."
Source: Aljazeera America, 06/19/2014
"Feds: Oil Train Details Not Security Sensitive"
"BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. transportation officials said Wednesday that details about volatile oil train shipments are not sensitive security information, after railroads sought to keep the material from the public following a string of fiery accidents."
Source: AP, 06/19/2014
"Split Senate Panel Approves FERC Nominees, Bill To Fast-Track KXL"
"The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee [Wednesday] confirmed Norman Bay to take the helm of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission after receiving assurances from the White House that he will remain a commissioner for at least nine months."
Source: Greenwire, 06/19/2014
