News Round-Up: August 7, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: New York to Approve Limited Fracking By Labor Day,...
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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Study Finds Correlation Between Seismic Activity in...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 9, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: What Texas’ Fracking Disclosure Law Does and Doesn’t...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 10, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Pro Surfer Chadd Konig to Paddle 250 Miles to Raise...
View ArticleIncompetent Louisiana regulators knew of risk at sinkhole site since early 2011
It's hard to know which is the worst thing about the ongoing environmental nightmare in the southeastern Louisiana community of Bayou Corne, where a massive sinkhole has forced an evacuation after...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: April 13, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Former Texas Mayor Shares First-Hand Experience with...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 14, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Fracking Materials Involved in Oklahoma Explosion,...
View ArticleDisappearing La. speckled trout another blow to BP’s Big Lie
You can add speckled trout to the list. Over the last several months, I've told you about all kinds of reports about serious problems to both the safety and available of Gulf seafood. Eyeless shrimp....
View Article“Something has gone wrong”: The mutant butterflies of Fukushima
You may be familiar with the scientific theory known as "the butterfly effect" -- a small change in nature today that creates major transformations in the future. The famous scenario speculates that a...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 15, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: UT Announces Panel That Will Look Into Fracking Study...
View ArticleUPDATE: Sinkhole crisis worsens, 2 workers rescued, town braces for possible...
The nightmare in Bayou Corne -- the besieged small town in southeastern Louisiana coping with the effects of a massive sinkhole, compounded by the incompetence of state bureaucrats -- keeps getting...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 16, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Study Finds High Risk to Drinking Water From Fracking...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 17, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Credibility Of UT Fracking Study & Review Panel...
View ArticleA plea for stronger radiation standards in Europe — and at home
I'm involved in a lot of environmental issues these days, but there was one cause that got me started: Fighting back against radiation poisoning. My first big environmental case, more than two decades...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 21, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Fracking Concerns Are Legitimate: International...
View ArticleThreat to Bayou Corne grows as tests show elevated levels of radium, butane...
Elevated levels of radium in the water and tests showing airborne indicators of butane -- the highly explosive fuel stored in a nearby cavern -- are two alarming signs that the environmental...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 22, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Drilling, Fracking Among Points of Contention at...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 23, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Has UT Review Panel Been Compromised by Chair’s...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 24, 2012
Today's Essential Reads FRACKING: EU Green Energy Drive Says No To Shale Gas, Looks Towards More Renewable Power Sources Europe has been unable to repeat the shale gas revolution that has swept the...
View ArticleUpdate: Expert says Louisiana officials “in denial” over radium risk at sinkhole
A veteran radiation expert says Louisiana environmental officials are "in denial" over the hazard posed by elevated radium levels discovered in the slurry liquids of the massive sinkhole that has...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 27, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Doctors Fight “Gag Orders” Over Fracking Chemicals...
View ArticleIsaac likely to bring grim, oily reminders of 2010 BP spill to Gulf coastline
Tropical Storm Isaac is bearing down on the Louisiana coast and is likely to become a hurricane later today, before making landfall somewhere close to New Orleans. This is not good news for either my...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 28, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Destroying Precious Land for Gas Could the BP Spill...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 29, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: France to Keep Shale Ban Until Fracking Alternative...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 30, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: France to Keep Shale Ban Until Fracking Alternative...
View ArticleBP cleanup crews spotted as Isaac stirs up oil, bad memories
For residents of the battered Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac didn't just bring sheets of rain, pummeling winds, and a powerful storm surge. The slow moving, deceptively destructive Category 1 hurricane...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: August 31, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Endangered California Wildlife Could be Further...
View ArticleBombshell: Feds slam BP in key court filing, admit pollution from 2010 spill...
In a bombshell federal court filing, U.S. government lawyers are slamming British Petroleum for making false and misleading statements that seek to both dodge blame for 2010's Deepwater Horizon...
View ArticleWorst fears about BP oil washing ashore after Isaac are coming true
Last week, I reported on this blog there were early indications that Hurricane Isaac had indeed whipped up some of as much as 1 million gallons of BP's spill oil that remain in the Gulf, assaulting...
View ArticleBreaking: Spill settlement unraveling as Halliburton slams deal; BP stock...
BP's $8.7 billion attempt to put the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill behind it continues to come undone. In the latest unraveling of the oil giant's proposed settlement with thousands of Gulf residents...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: September 5, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Residents Fear Fracking on Former Idora Land Feds...
View ArticleLouisiana unloads and blows giant hole in BP settlement
For the last 29 months, I've been chronicling the widespread and still-very-much-ongoing fallout from BP's gross negligence -- "a corporate culture of recklessness," as U.S. government lawyers called...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: September 11, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Ohio Rally, March to Protest Hydraulic Fracturing...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: September 12, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: West Virginia Gas Drilling Opponents Call For Halt To...
View ArticleWe object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”
The last couple of weeks have brought a lot of news – both good and bad – down here to the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaac was a double whammy; the storm itself destroyed homes and upended people’s lives,...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: September 13, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Anti-Fracking Groups Organize Nationwide Rallies BP...
View ArticleNow, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR
You've got to say this about British Petroleum -- they have some nerve. For more than two years, we've been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the sick and...
View ArticleLouisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac
In recent months, I've joined with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and others in calling for the state's Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to be stripped of its powers and for the federal...
View ArticleA temporary reprieve from Shell’s risky and reckless Arctic drilling scheme
For the last couple of weeks, we've been consumed with the never-ending fallout from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. Some 29 months after the explosion that killed 11 people and spewed 5 million...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: September 21, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Faculty Fights Fracking Sampling Continues at Bayou...
View ArticleTorn on the bayou: Sinkhole keeps getting bigger, more dangerous
A lot has happened over the last few weeks. In the political world, the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sees a new kerfuffle every few hours. Down here in Louisiana, we've been...
View ArticleThe sinkhole keeps getting bigger, and so do the lies of Texas Brine Co.
The crisis involving the Bayou Corne sinkhole in Louisiana just doesn't stop. In what's becoming an almost daily headline, the sinkhole grew again, swallowing up more trees and even part of an access...
View ArticleNew Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution
Sometimes a name can tell you a lot. In the past, I've told you about my enthusiastic support for a New Orleans group, active on Facebook and the Internet, that's called "Hear the Music, Stop the...
View ArticleJapan’s nuclear whack-a-mole alarms the world
I just wanted to offer a quick update on the latest news out of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, where the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and ensuing atomic accident just keeps...
View ArticleThe salty, radioactive gunk that Big Fracking doesn’t want you to know about
The big oil companies love to portray the rise of fracking as a great American success story -- using 21st Century technology and know-how to locate and extract pockets of cheap energy that were...
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Crude Justice — the story of a lifetime fighting Big Oil, and winning
The story of my new book -- Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America -- begins with a phone call. Sometimes one call can...
View ArticleKeystone XL and an ‘outrageous abuse of the law’: My interview with Tavis Smiley
Last week, it was my honor to fly to Los Angeles to sit down for an interview with PBS' Tavis Smiley for his nationwide late night show, to discuss my new book Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and...
View ArticleNew disclosure lifts lid on government cover-up of radioactive pollution in Ohio
A surprise admission by a top federal administrator is raising some shocking new questions about how much that kids going to a nearby middle school and neighbors of a southern Ohio uranium-processing...
View ArticleRadiation fears rock southern Ohio: ‘If you have half a thyroid, you’re doing...
First came the shock and the anger that the federal government had known about radioactive pollution at a middle school attended by their children and told no one for two years. But now the residents...
View ArticleThe new book that says everything you know about radiation is wrong
The recent release and popularity of the HBO series Chernobyl reminded its several million viewers — regular folks — of something that many experts have been worried about for decades: That the...
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