"House Committee Investigates Drilling Practice"
"The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Thursday it was investigating the potential impact of hydraulic fracturing on the environment and human health."
Source: Reuters, 02/19/2010
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"Top Firms Cause $2.2 Trillion of Environmental Damage"
"The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world's biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found."
Source: Guardian, 02/19/2010
"Interior Plans Tougher Energy Royalty Audits"
"The Interior Department is beefing up efforts to ensure companies are paying the royalties they owe from producing energy on federal lands."
Source: E2 Wire, 02/18/2010
"Southern Co.'s Lobbying Draws Complaints"
"President Barack Obama's award of billions of dollars in federal nuclear loan guarantees to Southern Co. has angered environmentalists who say the president is embracing the energy powerhouse that worked aggressively to defeat a key climate change bill championed by his administration."
Source: AP, 02/18/2010
"Environmental Advocates Are Cooling on Obama"
"The early optimism of environmental advocates that the policies of former President George W. Bush would be quickly swept away and replaced by a bright green future under Mr. Obama is for many environmentalists giving way to resignation, and in some cases, anger."
Source: NYTimes, 02/18/2010
Obama Announces Subsidy for First Nuclear Reactors in 3 Decades
"President Obama, speaking to an enthusiastic audience of union officials in Lanham, Md., on Tuesday, underscored his embrace of nuclear power as a clean energy source, announcing that the Energy Department had approved financial help for the construction of two nuclear reactors in Georgia."
Source: NYTimes, 02/17/2010
"Incinerator Plan Needs Help From Lawmakers"
"S.C. legislators are being asked to loosen state rules so a New Jersey company can build a $450 million garbage incinerator in jobs-hungry Chester County."
Source: The State, 02/16/2010
"Rowdy Russia May Finally Clean up Its Dirty Front Yard"
Growing pollution in the Baltic Sea has been making it unswimmable and contaminating fish. Now Russia has sealed a deal to put a pipeline beneath the Baltic -- with big international repercussions.
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 02/16/2010
"Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car"
"SAN FRANCISCO -- If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations."
Source: NYTimes, 02/16/2010
"UK, Ethiopia To Head Climate Funding Effort"
"Britain and Ethiopia will head a new United Nations panel that aims to secure $100 billion every year by 2020 to help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 02/15/2010
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