"Judge Orders Action on 6 Gulf Drilling Permits"
"A federal judge has given the Obama administration 30 days to act on six permits for deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: AP, 05/11/2011
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"Arctic Nations Eye Future Of World's Last Frontier"
"Leaders of Arctic nations gather in Greenland this week to chart future cooperation as global warming sets off a race for oil, mineral, fishing and shipping opportunities in the world's fragile final frontier."
Source: Reuters, 05/11/2011
"U.S. Nuclear Plants To Step Up Emergency Plans: INPO"
"Some U.S. nuclear plants are not in full compliance with rules set up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to respond to explosions and fires, a self-regulatory body for the nuclear industry has found."
Source: Reuters, 05/11/2011
Dems Aim To Cut Big Oil Tax Breaks for Deficit Reduction
"Leading Senate Democrats have coalesced around a political strategy in their uphill battle to repeal billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks: Make it all about the deficit."
Source: E2 Wire, 05/11/2011
"Update: Peabody Punked by Fake 'Coal Cares' Asthma Site"
"Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, is not, repeat, NOT, giving kids free asthma inhalers decorated with pictures of Justin Beiber, My Little Pony or Miley Cyrus."
Source: Edison 2.0, 05/11/2011
"A Critique of Barton’s Air Quality Claims"
Leaders of several medical societies wrote Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) Tuesday informing him that he was wrong on the science when he denied EPA's estimate of the health damages caused by air pollution.
Source: Green (NYT), 05/11/2011
"Japan to Cancel Plan to Build More Nuclear Plants"
"Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday that Japan would abandon plans to build more nuclear reactors, saying his country needed to 'start from scratch' in creating a new energy policy."
Source: NY Times, 05/11/2011
"U.S. Reaches a Settlement on Decisions About Endangered Species"
"The Interior Department, facing an avalanche of petitions and lawsuits over proposed endangered species designations, said Tuesday that it had negotiated a settlement under which it will make decisions on 251 species over the next six years."
Source: NY Times, 05/11/2011
"Mississippi River's Flood a Battle for All on the River's Edge"
"The flooding Mississippi River is done watching and waiting. And anyone who doubts that the river has become T.S. Eliot's personification of 'a strong brown god' need only walk up the slope of the levee and peer over the top."
Source: New Orelans Times-Picayune, 05/11/2011
Physicist Group Raises Doubts on Capturing Carbon Dioxide From Air
A new study released by the American Physical Society says that the dream of pulling carbon dioxide out of ambient air as a cure for global warming would be prohibitively expensive.
Source: NY Times, 05/10/2011
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