The Government of Canada has announced plans to streamline federal natural resources and environmental oversight. The objective is to reduce federal oversight of natural resource development projects by restricting federal involvement to only those projects […]
The first State of the Planet Declaration coming out of the Planet under Pressure 2012 conference in London warns that the continued functioning of the Earth climate system and its support for human civilization is […]
According to the New York Times, between 2006 and 2009 more than 9,400 of the US’s 25,000 sewage systems have violated the law by dumping untreated or partly treated human waste, chemicals and other hazardous […]
The European Commission intends to publish a ‘Blueprint to safeguard Europe’s Water Resources‘ by the end of 2012. The Blueprint will set out policies for efficient use of water resources in Europe. Since the Water […]
I blogged about a draft EPA report addressing issues of ground water quality in Pavillion, Wyoming relating to shale-gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing. There have been a number of reported instances of drinking water contamination […]
One of the things I particularly like about Air Canada is the movie/video content because you can find things that you might not otherwise come across. Last Sunday coming back from the UK, I was […]
The U.S. Administration has proposed a budget of $8.344 billion for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for FY 2013, $105 million below the EPA’s budget for FY 2012. National Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas […]
The shale-gas industry and hydraulic fracturing were explicitly exempted from Federal environmental oversight in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. I blogged about a recent EPA study in Wyoming that suggested shale-gas exploitation and specifically […]