States Unable To Regulate Growing Oil And Gas Industry, Report Finds

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 States Unable To Regulate Growing Oil And Gas Industry, Report Finds Hundreds of thousands of active oil and gas wells go without government inspection in any given year, and fines for regulatory violations are too small to change drilling company behavior, according to an energy watchdog group's review of regulation and enforcement activities in six states. Shocking Number Of Deaths May Occur Due To Climate Change New Test Results Due From Wyoming Fracking Zone Do The Candidates Differ From Their Alma Maters On Climate Change? Yosemite Hantavirus Outbreak May Offer Clues To Rare Disease Salt Marshes May Help Slow Climate Change, Then Accelerate It BLOG POSTS Bill McKibben: TransCanada Turns Sadistic in Texas: Keystone XL Protestors Tased and Pepper Sprayed Watching from a distance is hard. I'm on the move setting up our big roadshow assault on the fossil fuel industry, but the real action is in Texas, where a growing number of blockaders are trying to shut down work on the southern section of the Keystone Pipeline. Mera McGrew: Google Launches Street View Underwater Whether you're a marine biologist, a recreational diver or an individual who has never seen the ocean, you can now virtually dive beneath the waves and "swim" through coral reefs around the world. So dive in! Stephanie Woodard: Huntington Botanical Gardens Warns of Super-Pest: Is Anybody Listening? A little-understood but devastating beetle is infesting trees in commercial avocado groves, botanical gardens and backyards in Southern California. David Dodge: What Is It Like to Live Next to a 136-Megawatt Wind Farm? Get It Straight From the Horse's Mouth Heidi Eijgel is an Alberta horse farmer who lives in the last house at the end of a gravel road surrounded by one of the largest wind farms in Alberta - and she's ok with that. Francesca Koe: Ocean Conservation? Yes There's an App for That hile we cannot fix all of our ocean problems with the push of a button, technology can take us one step closer to engaging in marine life conservation on a deeper, more meaningful level.

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