Posted: Aug 04, 2014 8:18 PM CDT Updated: Aug 05, 2014 9:28 AM CDT By Caray Grace WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - You could say, Mississippi Power and the Sierra Club have called a truce. The power company and the environmental group announced a settlement Monday, in their six year battle over the Kemper [...]
By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter on July 21, 2014 at 8:22 PM [caption id="attachment_737" align="alignleft" width="620"] This Landsat satellite photo shows the status of cypress around Lake Maurepas on Oct. 20, 2009. The Atchafalaya Basinkeeper and Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper entered into a $33,000 settlement last week with a Tennessee businessman [...]
An explosion and fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA caused 15,000 people to seek medical treatment in August 2012. An explosion at a fertilizer facility in West, TX killed fifteen people — including local firefighters — and levelled an entire neighborhood in April 2013.. Which community will be next? The U.S. experiences several serious chemical release incidents [...]
By Paul Purpura, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Westwego's elected officials Monday night continued sounding their alarm over a company's plan to ship coal through the West Jefferson city in uncovered rail cars, to a shipping facility in Plaquemines Parish. The council last month enacted a resolution, expressing its unhappiness over a proposal to roll coal through the city. Now [...]
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS June 26, 201411:33 PM ET EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Central Oklahoma residents are demanding to know whether earthquake swarms that have shaken their homes and their nerves in recent months are caused by oil and gas drilling operations in the area. About 500 people attended a meeting with regulators and research geologists Thursday night in [...]
Geologists link state’s increase in earthquakes to fracking July 2, 2014 5:00AM ET by L.E. Ellison The T-shirts say it all: Keep calm and polka on. It has been almost three years since a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Prague, Oklahoma, buckling a highway, cracking structures and rattling nerves. It was the largest earthquake ever recorded in the state. City workers [...]
