Last week, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx unveiled his department's proposed oil-by-rail regulations. How did the Transportation Department manage varying stakeholder interests and challenges in its proposal? During today's OnPoint, Kevin Book, managing director at ClearView Energy Partners, discusses the proposal's impact on industry and the politics surrounding the release of the proposed rule.
TRANSPORT: ClearView Energy's Book discusses scope of DOT oil-by-rail rules
↧
↧
AUSTRALIA: Nation OKs largest coal mine
Australia's government has approved the construction of what will be the nation's largest coal mine while imposing conditions meant to protect groundwater.
↧
UNITED KINGDOM: Government expands fracking with new leases
The British government will grant new drilling licenses for the first time in six years in a bidding process open to shale-extraction companies.
↧
NORTH DAKOTA: Bobcat fur farmers seek refuge from oil drilling
Noise and dust from a neighboring oil drilling operation is pushing the owners of a bobcat fur farm to seek relocation from western North Dakota to a relatively quieter area in central Montana.
↧
CALIFORNIA: Blaze destroys buildings, prompts evacuations
Firefighters near Sacramento, Calif., continued to battle a fast-moving wildfire that broke out Friday, as 1,200 residents were forced to evacuate their homes.
↧
↧
CALIFORNIA: Rare lightning kills 1, injures 13
A rare lightning storm yesterday killed a 20-year-old man and injured 13 other people after several bolts struck Venice Beach, Calif.
↧
NUCLEAR WASTE: New theory in N.M. radiation leak faults lead glove
The radiation leak that shut down New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant earlier this year may have resulted from a container of radioactive materials being improperly packaged with a lead-lined glove, a state lawmaker said.
↧
RAIL SAFETY: Industry resists calls for accident-prevention technology
California is working to speed use of a technology to prevent train accidents caused by human error, but it is meeting resistance from the rail industry.
↧
BIOTECH: Safeway shareholders vote down GMO labeling effort
Shareholders of supermarket chain Safeway Corp. voted down a resolution at their annual meeting Friday that would have required labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients.
↧
↧
ELECTRICITY: Manure-powered plant in Md. remains in limbo
Maryland state authorities continue to struggle to find a feasible way to move a power plant fueled on chicken manure forward due to the failure of a potential partnership and a lack of prospective sites for the facility.
↧
COAL: Enviros say leasing program contradicts Obama's climate plan
The Obama administration's coal-leasing program continues undermining taxpayers and the president's own Climate Action Plan, according to a pair of environmental group reports.
↧
AIR POLLUTION: Rising temperatures, ozone spell trouble for key food crops
Global warming and smoggy air will likely make it more difficult to feed a growing population, according to a new study led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
↧
GULF SPILL: BP urges federal judge to dismiss investor lawsuit
BP PLC lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by British investors against the company in the United States.
↧
↧
CHEMICALS: Secrecy agreements threaten to obscure information from Texas blast lawsuits
Confidentiality agreements filed in many of the lawsuits stemming from the 2013 West Fertilizer Co. ammonium nitrate explosion threaten to keep secret information that could help pinpoint the cause of the blast and make fertilizer plants safer in the future.
↧
BIOFUELS: Australian man pleads guilty in $41M fake-credit scheme
An Australian man has pleaded guilty to a biodiesel fraud scheme that netted more than $41 million.
↧
TRANSPORTATION: FHWA's No. 2 in N.J. quits following criminal charges
The Federal Highway Administration's No. 2 official in New Jersey has resigned after being charged with fraud and making false statements in connection with an alleged scheme to steer taxpayer money to a company that he controlled.
↧
OBITUARY: Bird song expert dies at 86
One of the world's foremost experts on the language of bird songs and the communication of monkeys died earlier this month at age 86 in Winters, Calif.
↧
↧
COAL: Ranchers struggle to regain mining land
Turnercrest Ranch, 60 miles south of Gillette, Wyo., has been in Leland Turner's family since 1918, but the property faces new threats from coal mining in the area.
↧
FISHERIES: Anglers remain skeptical despite Lake Huron stock recovery
Fish populations have largely recovered in Lake Huron more than a decade after its chinook salmon precipitously declined, but anglers aren't convinced that returning to the area is worth their time.
↧
INVASIVE SPECIES: Thrill of the chase drives Fla.'s top python hunter
Florida's most skilled Burmese python hunter can't squeeze out a cent for his efforts to clear the Everglades of the invasive snake.
↧
More Pages to Explore .....