Environmental Must-Reads – May 24, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »It’s hard to believe, but with summer upon us we’re also getting closer to the one-year anniversary of the sinkhole fiasco in Bayou Corne. That means that roughly 350 residents of this bayou community 70 miles west of New Orleans have spent months now out of their homes in a forced evacuation, fleeing the smell of methane, an ever-widening hole in the earth that could now accommodate the Louisiana Superdome, [...]
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »We’re now roughly five years into the surge on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas that has been trapped under shale formations, deep below the earth. The sharp rise in this fairly new type of drilling has overwhelmed states such as Pennsylvania and Ohio, formerly coal states where intensive drilling for fossil fuels hadn’t taken place for generations. One important consequence is that state regulators have been totally unprepared [...]
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »Every so often, I worry that I’ve lost my capacity to feel anger and outrage over the oily monster that is British Petroleum — but if there’s one thing that BP is very good at, it’s fueling…rage. Here on the Gulf Coast, we’ve been fighting for three years to make sure that BP — a massive multinational corporation that makes billions of dollars in profit on the backs of the [...]
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »As I’ve noted several times recently, the tide has changed when it comes to public perceptions of the Gulf of Mexico, more than three years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. For a while, the mega-millions that BP had spent on slick marketing, and bland pronouncements from public officials, had lulled not only the public but even journalists to sleep. But now, good science and some old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting has changed [...]
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