"Oklahoma Earthquakes Linked To Injection Wells"
"HOUSTON -- Oklahoma's largest-recorded earthquake was triggered by injection wells used by the oil and gas industry, according to a report released this week."
Source: LA Times, 03/28/2013
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"Sierra Snowpack Falls Short"
"Snow-surveying crews across the Sierra are seeing bad news up close this week. California has about half a snowpack."
Source: Fresno Bee, 03/28/2013
"Justice Department Is Investigating Shell's Arctic Drilling"
"The Coast Guard has asked the Justice Department to investigate possible pollution violations by both the drilling rigs Shell used in its botched efforts to explore for oil last year in the Arctic Ocean waters off the northern coast of Alaska."
Source: McClatchy, 03/28/2013
"Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Winter Max and It's Dismally Low"
"The Arctic Ocean reached the most frozen it's going to get this year on 13 March. Now the melt season begins, predicts the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The seasonal stats were gloomy. The max sea ice area of 2013 was was 5.84 million square miles (15.13 million square kilometers). That's the sixth lowest extent on record and a whopping 283,000 square miles (733,000 square kilometers) below the 1979 to 2000 average maximum."
Source: Mother Jones, 03/28/2013
"Train Hauling Canadian Oil Derails in Minnesota"
"A mile-long train hauling oil from Canada derailed and leaked 30,000 gallons of crude in western Minnesota on Wednesday, as debate rages over the environmental risks of transporting tar sands across the border."
Source: Reuters, 03/28/2013
"Study: Two-Thirds of Pesticides Got Flawed EPA Approval"
"Many pesticides used in consumer products and agriculture received federal approval through a loophole that doesn't require thorough testing, according to a study released Wednesday by an environmental group."
Source: USA TODAY, 03/28/2013
"IMF Urges Phasing Out $1.9 Trillion in Global Energy Subsidies"
"Energy subsidies cost governments from the U.S. to Egypt $1.9 trillion, discourage private investment and help wealthy consumers more than the poor, according to a study by International Monetary Fund staff."
Source: Bloomberg, 03/28/2013
EPA Pilot-Tests New Data Mapping Tool on Community Exposures
The Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool (C-FERST), available currently to some agencies, communities, and researchers, could be helpful in tracking environmental justice stories: the impact of specific pollutant exposures on particular geographic and demographic communities.
Fracking Disclosure Loses a Round in Wyoming
Natrona County District Judge Catherine Wilking ruled March 25, 2013, that a company could withhold as trade secret the ingredients used in the fluids it pumped under high pressure to fracture gas- and oil-bearing rock. Environmentalists had sought to make the ingredient list public.
Court Lifts Settlement Secrecy in Pennsylvania Fracking Case
The unsealed documents revealed that the potential plaintiffs had received $750,000 from frackers Range Resources, which has been accused of high-handed tactics. The case is important in several respects — even beyond the broader controversy over sealing of civil settlements.
