"Frackers Are Losing $1.5 Billion Yearly to Leaks"
"Leaky pipes are the 'super low-hanging fruit' of climate change."
Source: Climate Desk, 04/08/2013
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"New Orleans Stench May Be Linked to Exxon Refinery Leak: Coast Guard"
"A 'rank' odor that has spread across parts of greater New Orleans may be linked to a leak from the 192,500-barrel-per-day Chalmette refinery, the U.S. Coast Guard investigating the smell said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 04/05/2013
"New Niagara Tunnel Helps Ontario Replace Coal with Hydro"
"TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, April 4, 2013 (ENS) – The province of Ontario is harnessing more renewable electricity from Niagara Falls through the just-completed Niagara Tunnel Project, as part of its plan to phase out its coal-fired power plants by the end of 2014."
Source: ENS, 04/05/2013
"Kentucky Coal Production, Employment Plummet"
"Coal production in Kentucky last year reached its lowest level since 1965, while shedding more than 4,000 jobs, nearly all of them in Appalachian counties, according to a new state report."
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 04/05/2013
"U.S. Proposal To Move Fracking Wastewater By Barge Stirs Debate"
"The Obama administration is inching ahead with a plan that would allow wastewater from fracking to be shipped on barges, fueling a debate whether it is safer than other transportation modes or risks polluting drinking water."
Source: Reuters, 04/04/2013
"How Ontario Is Putting an End To Coal-Burning Power Plants"
Next year, Ontario will become the first industrial region in North America to eliminate coal-fired electrical generation.
Source: YaleE360, 04/04/2013
Politics, Environmental Worries Threaten New Coal Ports in Northwest
"Growing environmental objections to exporting coal from Washington state and Oregon have begun to endanger the coal industry’s hope to restore its flagging fortunes by shipping much more of the embattled fossil fuel to China and India."
Source: McClatchy, 04/04/2013
"Marcia McNutt Bringing Her 'Intellectual Energy' to Science"
"Rumors of Scripps begone -- geophysicist Marcia McNutt, who stepped down as head of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in February, is returning to Washington, D.C., as the new editor-in-chief of Science. McNutt will take over the editorship on 1 June from Bruce Alberts, who announced his retirement last year."
Source: Science, 04/04/2013
"Leaking Gas Pipelines Across Michigan Create An Underground Danger"
"Crisscrossing Michigan are more than 3,100 miles of old wrought- and cast-iron natural-gas pipelines -- the type federal regulators consider the most at risk of corrosion, cracking and catastrophic rupturing. The state's two largest utilities have replaced less than 15% of these pipelines -- 542 miles -- in the past decade."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 04/04/2013
"The Koch Brothers’ Media Investment"
Rumors that the conservative billionaire Koch brothers could be poised to buy the Tribune Company raise questions about how that might affect Tribune news outlets' coverage of environment and energy issues, in which the Kochs have a substantial stake.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, 04/04/2013
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