4.15.13
Oil Spill
BP has crews searching for oil with a different appraoch
WEAR
PENSACOLA BEACH -- One county commissioner is hoping BP crews visit
Perdido Key to search for oil underneath the sand.
http://www.weartv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/bp-has-crews-searching-oil-different-approach-30861.shtml
Bay County Accepts $15 Million BP Settlement
WJHG
It's been three years since the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform
exploded, sending hundreds of millions of gallons of oil onto gulf coast
beaches. County officials received their first damage claim money about
6-months later.
http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Bay-County-Accepts-15-Million-BP-Settlement-202755791.html
Gulf Shores Restoration Project Underway
WPMI
GULF SHORES, Ala. (WPMI) You'll soon be seeing "Keep Off The Dunes" signs
along our area beaches. These are good signs, an indication that money is
being spent to pay for the science behind restoring dunes across the Gulf
Coast.
http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Gulf-Shores-Restoration-Project-Underway/rCs8vdnKcEimNPglU72yPQ.cspx
Restoring Beaches In Baldwin County
WKRG
GULF SHORES, Alabama - At Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge...biologists
hope to restore one of Alabama's most beautiful natural resources to pre
oil spill conditions.
http://www.wkrg.com/story/21964983/restoring-beaches-in-baldwin-county
BP-funded $1.3 million dune restoration project takes root along Alabama
Gulf Coast
Press Register
By Marc D. Anderson | manderson@al.com
April 12, 2013 at 7:01 PM
GULF SHORES, Alabama -- Having overseen the planting of 44 million beach
plants over two decades along the Gulf Coast, Robert McKee's
Pensacola-based company is back at work along Baldwin County's shores as
part of a BP-funded $1.3 million dune restoration project.
http://blog.al.com/live/2013/04/bp-funded_13_million_dune_rest.html
Dune restoration starts with sea oats
WALA
FT. MORGAN, Ala. (WALA) - The Department of the Interior is working
collaboratively with its fellow Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage
Assessment Trustees to achieve early restoration of natural resources
injured by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/gulf_oil_spill/dune-restoration-starts-with-sea-oats
State News
Jackson County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day set at Singing
River Mall
By Mississippi Press Staff
April 13, 2013 at 7:09 PM
GAUTIER, Mississippi -- Jackson County will celebrate Earth Day by hosting
its 10th annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, April
20, 8 a.m. to noon in the Singing River Mall parking lot.
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2013/04/jackson_county_household_hazar.html
Pascagoulans take city's cleanup into their own hands
Sun Herald
By LINDSAY KNOWLES — Special to the Sun Herald
PASCAGOULA -- With gloves on their hands, dozens of Pascagoula residents
picked up trash bags Saturday morning to participate in the annual Keep
America Beautiful Cleanup.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/04/13/4591887/pascagoulans-take-citys-cleanup.html
New law adds wild hogs to population control program
Clarion Ledger
Wild hogs reportedly roaming throughout the state are damaging crops and
land, farmers and wildlife officials say.
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130415/NEWS01/304150001/New-law-adds-wild-hogs-population-control-program
National News
It's official: EPA delays climate rule for new power plants
Washington Post
By Juliet Eilperin, Updated: April 12, 2013
You might have been wondering whether the Obama administration was going to
impose the first-ever greenhouse gas limits on new power plants, since the
deadline is April 13.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/12/its-official-epa-delays-climate-rule-for-new-power-plants/
E.P.A. Will Delay Rule Limiting Carbon Emissions at New Power Plants
NY Times
By JOHN M. BRODER
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that it would
delay issuance of a new rule limiting emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases from new power plants after the electric power industry
objected on legal and technical grounds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/science/earth/epa-to-delay-emissions-rule-at-new-power-plants.html?ref=earth&_r=0&pagewanted=print
House GOP proposal would overturn EPA regulations deemed harmful to the
economy
Houston Chronicle
The deeply divided House of Representatives divided, well, deeply along
partisan lines Friday over a GOP bill to curb the Environmental Protection
Agency's regulatory powers.
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2013/04/house-gop-proposal-would-overturn-epa-regulations-deemed-harmful-to-the-economy/
Environmentalists fear weaker fracking rule
Politico
By: Talia Buford
April 15, 2013 05:12 AM EDT
Environmentalists fear the oil and gas industry has the Obama
administration's ear as the government prepares to release a new draft rule
to govern fracking on federal lands.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/fracking-energy-environmentalists-green-90040.html?hp=l9
Arkansas oil spill is only a fraction of annual pipeline losses
LA Times
By Matt Pearce
April 12, 2013, 6:30 a.m.
The images from Mayflower, Ark., after a March 29 oil spillwere
particularly repulsive: A river of black goo running through yards and down
the street of a subdivision, and hundreds of workers arriving to clean up
an industrial mess in a peaceful burg.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-arkansas-oil-spill-20130412,0,6174184.story
Opinion
President Obama's bigger environmental agenda
Washington Post
By Editorial Board, Published: April 13
IN HIS second inaugural address, President Obama promised to prioritize
environmental issues, particularly climate change, over the next four
years. He has begun that push on familiar ground, using two laws from the
past century to achieve more traditional goals: clean air and land
conservation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-obama-adopts-a-bigger-environmental-agenda/2013/04/13/ef00da9a-a160-11e2-be47-b44febada3a8_story.html
Should the Federal Government Regulate Fracking?
Wall Street Journal
Fracking supporters say it could set America on the road to energy
independence and drastically change our economic prospects while helping
address climate change.
But who should be in charge of regulating fracking?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495104578314302738867078.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
