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Toxic Chemicals Injected Into Wells, Democratic Report Says

WASHINGTON -- Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday. The report said 29 of the chemicals injected were known-or-suspected human carcinogens. They either...

Opinion: Common Ground Can Be Found

(Sept. 16) -- Tuesday night, Delaware, New Hampshire and New York joined Nevada, Colorado, Florida and Kentucky in the ranks of states where establishment Republican candidates have fallen to GOP outsiders in this year's primaries -- evidence, some pundits suggest, that voters are likely in store for more, not less,...

BP Under Fire for Allegedly Using Too Much Dispersant

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NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 1) -- BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico as environmental officials defended themselves Sunday against assertions they allowed the oil giant liberal use of chemical dispersants whose threat to sea life remains unknown. The Coast Guard routinely approved...

BP Races to Stanch Oil Spill as Bad Weather Threatens

(July 21) -- Bad weather could force BP to delay efforts to plug the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and reopen the oil well after a week of it being contained. Retired U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill, told The Associated Press that a storm system approaching from the Caribbean...

BP Relief Well Races Toward Oil Source

(July 21) -- Keeping an eye on rising pressure levels under its capped-but-leaking oil well, BP is racing to burrow deep under the seabed to staunch the oil's flow at its source -- where a nearby relief well could reach by this weekend. But as BP nears the final stretch toward permanently plugging its runaway well, fears...

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Officials Object As Mass. Nuke Plant Relicensing Nears

Massachusetts' only nuclear power plant wants permission to operate another 20 years, but as a decision nears, some high ranking officials say a record-long federal review of the request spanning more than six years hasn't been long enough.

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05/29/12 Senator Boxer and Rep. Markey Release GAO Report: NRC... Source: YubaNet.com - Nevada City CA Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) doesn't require operating nuclear reactors to utilize the most updated method of risk analysis to assess vulnerability to earthquakes, floods or other natural disasters.
05/24/12 Scientists say worst radiation exposures in life... Source: The Raw Story Where in life would you say that you get the highest doses of radiation?
05/23/12 Korean automakers' success threaten slumping European... Source: Kashmir News Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - 2008-12-09 - (Part 1 Not Currently Available.)
05/22/12 Are the police tracking your calls? Source: NBC - WPTV 5 - Hanover VT Do you know how long your cell phone company keeps records of whom you text, who calls you or what places you have traveled?
05/18/12 Markey Commends Twitter Endorsement of 'Do Not Track'... Source: TMCnet WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and former chairman of the Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee, released the following statement after Twitter today announced its support for 'Do Not Track' mechanisms, offering users the opportunity to turn off information collection features when using Twitter.