Huffington Post The group taught consumers about chemicals and toxins that have become commonplace for non-organic foods. Although ... been using his fame to call attention to this ... and more »
La Crosse Tribune By all accounts, the 75 police, firefighters, ambulance crews and other emergency personnel performed well at the same time they learned how to face such a disaster, said Keith Butler, La Crosse County's emergency management coordinator. Maybe too well ... and more »
Herald & Tribune The University of Tennessee was granted permission by the state to open to hydraulic fracturing 8,600 pristine acres in the Cumberland Forest , a public-lands asset held by UT since 1936. When the state adopted new oil and gas regulations last year, it ...
Popular Science Frozen in Time A cylinder of 130,000-year-old ice drilled from the Greenland ice sheet tells the story of an ancient warming period. Courtesy Neem Ice Core Drilling Project. The skies do strange things at the NEEM ... “I've been all over that ice sheet ...
Akron Beacon Journal (blog) The homeowners seek unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for the effects of toxic chemicals , noise and odor from nearby gas wells, according to a copy of a complaint provided by the families' lawyers. It couldn't immediately be verified in ... and more »
StateImpact Texas More recently, lawmakers tightened cleanup requirements for other equipment like abandoned tanks. Tens of thousands ... A study prepared in 2011 for the Ground Water Protection Council based in Oklahoma cited 30 episodes from 1993 to 2008 of orphaned ... and more »
Press Pubs “We could cut down on some of our chemical costs that we have for treating the water.” An aquifer is a reservoir of ... However, switching aquifers is more complicated that simply choosing to drill another well. The DNR needs to sign off ... Reinert ...
Sanford Herald (registration) In February, the N.C. Senate passed a bill that would let hydraulic fracturing and other natural gas drilling operations begin in March 2015, even if the state didn't have any modern regulations in place. ... address environmental disasters, allows for ... and more »
NOLA.com Under the new Coast Guard strategy, for Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, future sightings of oil or oily debris along their shorelines must be reported to the Coast Guard's National Response Center, which takes reports of releases of oil and other ... and more »
Environment & Energy Publishing ... moved to ban hydraulic fracturing -- the industrial process of blasting chemical -laced water and sand underground to crack shale and release gas -- the association joined other industry players in an expensive campaign to protect their drilling ...
