"Solar Plane Makes Maiden International Flight"
"A solar energy plane made the world's first international flight powered by the sun on Friday to show the potential for pollution-free air travel."
Source: Reuters, 05/17/2011
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Senate Panel Head Says Clean Energy Bill, Oil Subsidy Repeal Unlikely
The chairman of the Senate Energy Committee says the Senate is unlikely to pass either "clean energy" legislation or a repeal of oil subsidies.
Source: Greenwire, 05/17/2011
"U.S. Asks Six Natgas Drillers To Disclose Waste Info"
"Environmental regulators on Thursday directed six natural gas drillers to disclose how they dispose of or recycle waste water in Pennsylvania after a recent Chesapeake Energy Corp accident."
Source: Reuters, 05/13/2011
"Congress, Immersed in Oil Debate, Foreshadows 2012 Campaign Rhetoric"
"Lawmakers intensified their shootout over oil yesterday, with House Republicans passing a bill to enhance drilling while Democrats launched a plan to rescind tax breaks for major oil companies and invest in cleaner transportation."
Source: ClimateWire, 05/13/2011
"Panel on Nuclear Waste Disposal to Propose Above-Ground Storage"
"A commission created to help resolve the impasse over the disposal of the nation’s nuclear waste will propose establishing one or more sites where used reactor fuel could be stored in steel and concrete structures on the earth’s surface for decades, members of the commission said this week."
Source: NY Times, 05/13/2011
"Cuba's Hunt For Oil Raises Questions For U.S."
"In the deep waters off Cuba's north coast, a Chinese-built oil rig is due to begin drilling this fall in an area geologists believe may have huge beds of undersea crude."
Source: NPR, 05/12/2011
"Coal Curriculum Called Unfit for 4th Graders"
"Three advocacy groups have started a letter-writing campaign asking Scholastic Inc. to stop distributing the fourth-grade curriculum materials that the American Coal Foundation paid the company to develop."
Source: NY Times, 05/12/2011
"French Lean Toward Ban of a Controversial Gas Extraction Technique"
"French lawmakers opened debate on Tuesday on proposals to ban a method for extracting oil and gas deposits from shale because of environmental concerns, throwing up the first serious stumbling block to firms that want to use the practice."
Source: NY Times, 05/11/2011
"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
"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
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