6.25.14
Oil Spill
BCAR members get update on oil spill compensation
Gulf Coast News Today
By John Underwood
ROBERTSDALE, Ala. -- It's been more than four years since the Deepwater
Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 people and
sending millions of gallons of crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com/the_baldwin_times/community/article_4962fd06-fb1a-11e3-8365-001a4bcf887a.html
State
MS Phosphates Addresses Residents' Concern About Air Quality
WXXV
Monday night in Pascagoula, Mississippi Phosphates met with the Cherokee
Concerned Citizens Group to discuss air quality. David Kilbern and his
family live near the Mississippi Phosphates plant in Jackson County. He's
glad the chemical company plans to install air quality monitors in his
Bayou Casotte neighborhood.
http://www.wxxv25.com/news/local/story/MS-Phosphates-Addresses-Residents-Concern-About/Iq0YIMCqmUuuzh0JOzP4ng.cspx
Regional
'Dead zone' the size of Connecticut expected along Louisiana coast,
scientists say
Mark Schleifstein
The Times-Picayune
June 24, 2014 at 6:12 PM
The size of the annual summer "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the Gulf
of Mexico along Louisiana's coast will cover between 4,633 and 5,708 miles,
about the size of the state of Connecticut, according to a Tuesday forecast
announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/06/low_oxygen_dead_zone_the_size.html#incart_river
Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' expected to be average size this summer
Baton Rouge Advocate
The annual low-oxygen "dead zone" that forms every summer off the coast of
Louisiana will be about average size this year, according to forecast
modeling done through support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
http://theadvocate.com/home/9548602-125/gulf-of-mexico-dead-zone
National
Committee targets EPA's 'secret science'
The HIll
By Timothy Cama
The House Science, Space and Technology Committee voted Tuesday to advance
a bill that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to
disclose the data it uses to write regulations.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/210379-committee-passes-bill-to-fight-epas-secret-science
Lawmakers Urge Court to Block Chesapeake Cleanup
By HOPE YEN Associated Press
A group of 39 lawmakers is urging a federal court to block the Obama
administration's plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay watershed, describing
it as an unjustified power grab.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/lawmakers-urge-court-block-chesapeake-cleanup-24282882
Railroads give up attempts to keep crude oil shipment data secret
BY CURTIS TATE
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The nation's largest haulers of crude oil by rail on Tuesday
appeared to abandon their insistence that information about such shipments
could not be shared publicly for security reasons.
http://www.sunherald.com/2014/06/24/5667342/crude-oil-rail-shipment-data-begins.html?sp=/99/102/
