by Nelson Bailey | Apr 5, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revive and expedite two multi-billion-dollar underground pipelines that would snake oil through US states to centers of the petroleum industry. One is the contentious $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline,...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 3, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
March 31, 2017 GREAT FALLS, Mont. – A conservation group in Montana on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would travel through the state and across two of its major rivers. The Trump administration approved the pipeline last...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 26, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
As natural gas pipelines beneath our cities get older, small natural gas leaks are increasingly becoming a serious environmental problem. Taking advantage of the fact that Google’s Street View cars are constantly roaming our urban corridors, a novel...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 24, 2017 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
A crude oil spill in western North Dakota in December is now believed to have leaked about 530,000 gallons of oil, much larger than initially anticipated, according to an Associated Press report published on a local news website on Friday. This is among the biggest...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 23, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide but hangs around the atmosphere for a shorter time. March 22, 2017 Researchers at Purdue University and the Environmental Defense Fund have concluded in a recent study that natural gas power plants...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 22, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Press Releases
Wall Street Journal Gas Glut Reverses Lucrative 2016 Trade Natural-gas futures have fallen 25% in the oversupplied market, hurting plans to grow U.S. exports By Timothy Puko Updated March 14, 2017 9:10 p.m. ET A flood of natural gas swamping the U.S. is turning into a...
