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Crews try to contain oil spill in Texas' Galveston Bay as peak bird migration season nears
2014-03-23 06:13:20| Appliances - Topix.net
A barge carrying nearly a million gallons of especially thick, sticky oil collided with a ship in Galveston Bay on Saturday, leaking an unknown amount of the fuel into the popular bird habitat as the peak of the migratory shorebird season was approaching.
Wildcatters rush Spindletop in return to East Texas oil
2014-03-22 08:39:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
David Wethe/Bloomberg News'I never thought I'd go back to East Texas,' says Mark Plummer, a third-generation oilman who grew up hearing stories about his grandfather's days in the oil patch, fields thought to be long played out by the time Plummer arrived in 2000 with his own company, Chestnut Exploration & Production.
Los Alamos lab turns to Texas to temporarily store radioactive waste
2014-03-20 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Los Alamos National Laboratory has found a temporary home in Texas for roughly 1,000 barrels of radioactive junk left in limbo after a radiation leak led to a prolonged shutdown of New Mexico's only nuclear waste disposal facility. Los Alamos, one of the leading U.S. nuclear weapons labs, said earlier this month it had been forced to halt shipments of its radioactive refuse some 300 miles across the state to the nation's only underground nuclear repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, near...
Colorado's Tough New Drilling Rules Make an Impact in Texas
2014-03-20 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Colorado's tough, new air pollution rules for the oil and gas industry were approved only a month ago but they're already making an impact in Texas, where lawmakers and energy companies have long resisted tightening air standards. Several companies have approached the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund and expressed interest in discussing whether Colorado's rules make sense for Texas, according to Jim Marston, a vice president at EDF. Marston didn't name the companies. "The companies are...
Texas Chemical Plant Agrees to Cut Harmful Air Pollution in Overburdened Community
2014-03-20 05:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Department of Justice and U.S. EPA announced that Flint Hills Resources of Port Arthur agreed to implement innovative technologies to control harmful air pollution from industrial flares and leaking equipment at chemical plant in Port Arthur, TX. This settlement came about as part of EPA's national effort to protect communities that have been disproportionately impacted by pollution. Company is also required to pay $350,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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