By Nicholas KusnetzProPublica, Jan. 5, 2011, 9:20 a.m. As gas-drilling operations proliferated in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale over the past couple of years, most of the hundreds of millions of gallons of briny wastewater they produced was eventually dumped into the state’s rivers. Much of the rest is unaccounted for. That news, from a detailed look […]
By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles TimesJanuary 9, 2011 There will be little to like and something for just about everyone to hate. But it is in giving Californians a dose of painful budgetary truth that Brown hopes to succeed. To tame the state’s chronic budget shortfalls, the Democratic governor will request cuts in a broad […]
Added On January 7, 2011 Frustrated Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser yells at a Coast Guard commander on an oil-coated beach. Nungesser blasts oil disaster cleanup Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,wetland,Gulf of Mexico,North America,conflict
By The Associated Press Published: Friday, January 07, 2011, 12:32 PM Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster remains in marshes off the coast of Louisiana, where officials are renewing complaints about the cleanup effort by the oil giant BP and the federal government. State and parish officials took media on a tour Friday morning of […]
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent; Editing by Peter CooneyThu Jan 6, 2011 4:17pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bacteria ate nearly all the potentially climate-warming methane that spewed from BP’s broken wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico last year, scientists reported on Thursday. Nearly 200,000 tons of methane — more than any other single hydrocarbon emitted […]
By HENRY BREAN, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALJanuary 6, 2011 | 12:00 a.m. A flood that destroyed homes near Mesquite last month also delivered a welcome boost to Lake Mead. High flows on the Virgin River and its tributaries raised the level of the reservoir by about a foot and a half, according to rough projections from […]
CBC NewsThursday, January 6, 2011 An explosion has rocked the Horizon oilsands site near Fort McKay in northern Alberta, injuring three employees, officials with Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., which owns the site, confirmed. The explosion occurred around 3:30 p.m. MT Thursday. A contractor at the site said the blast shot flames and smoke hundreds of […]
Federal forecasters say it is likely that Lake Mead will receive a larger than usual release of water from Lake Powell in the coming year, as conditions in the two reservoirs approach a trigger point for so-called “equalization.” The extra water for Lake Mead — 9 million acre-feet instead of the standard 8.23 million acre-feet […]
CBC NewsLast Updated: Monday, January 3, 2011 | 6:46 PM CST A lack of sea ice in parts of Canada’s eastern Arctic is contributing to unusually mild temperatures in Nunavut, according to scientists. In recent months, the weather in many parts of Nunavut has been 10 to 12 degrees above the –20 and –30 C […]
By Alok Jha, science correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk Monday 3 January 2011 20.02 GMT The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census of the insects. Scientists said the alarming decline, which could have devastating implications for the […]
