A 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...
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