- Ottawa removing North Pacific humpback whales from list of 'threatened' species—"The decision removes a major legal hurdle that the environmental group Ecojustice said stood in the way of the $7.9-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project that would bring 550,000 barrels of diluted bitumen crude from Alberta to Kitimat."
- Queensland Government urges boycott of Ben & Jerry's ice cream over WWF 'propaganda' on Great Barrier Reef
- Great Barrier Reef's 'unprecedented' threat from dredging, dumping—"Conservation society says impact of previous sediment dumps far greater than claimed."
- Alberta to sell off land that serves as crucial caribou habitat
- Wood poaching: Men charged with slashing old-growth redwood
- China to jail eaters of rare wild animals—All for status symbol.
- Grey wolf appears in Iowa for first time in 89 years – and is shot dead—"Hunter mistook animal for a coyote and escapes being cited despite wolves being a protected species in the state, reports Mongabay."
- Madrid matadors gored by bulls at festival launch
- Marine mammals mysteriously dying in record numbers along West Coast
- World's No. 1 pesticide brings honeybees to their knees, say scientists—"A new study from Harvard implicates two neonicotinoid pesticides, imidacloprid and clothianidin, in the ongoing plague of honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder. Imidacloprid is the most widely used pesticide in the world, and both are approved by the EPA."
- U.S. Senate Republicans block energy bill, forfeit Keystone vote
- Joe Hockey warns clean energy and 'utterly offensive' windfarms are in his budget crosshairs
- Kansas Republican slams Kochs for trying to cripple state’s growing wind power industry
- Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Energy Needs From Renewable Energy
- WWF staff receive death threats for opposing Virunga oil exploitation
- US failed to inspect thousands of at-risk oil and gas wells, report finds
- Probe finds scant oversight of chemical plants—"The government has no way of fully knowing which U.S. chemical facilities stock ammonium nitrate, the substance that exploded last year at a Texas fertilizer plant and killed 14 people, congressional investigators say."
- Federal official tipped off oil company about "surprise" rail inspection—"This is what the government's crackdown on rail safety looks like." Salon
- Second radioactive oil waste site found in North Dakota
- Cleanup continues for drilling leak near Marietta
- Oil Train Derails in Lynchburg, Virginia—Also: Crude Oil Cars and Train Derailments, Explained
- Ethanol fuels ozone pollution—"Shifts in use between petrol and ethanol in São Paulo’s cars creates unique atmospheric chemistry experiment."
- Air pollution 'too high' in most of world's cities
- Top 20 most polluted cities in the world
- Smog-Sucking Electrostatic Vacuum Cleaners May Scrub Polluted Air
- D.C. said it was recycling — it wasn't. Nearly 53 tons of plastic trash cans sent to landfill. WaPo
- Baltimore: Water Wheel operating in a rain storm
- BP pipeline sprays 'oily mist' over 33 acres of Alaskan tundra
- BP oil spill may have killed hundreds of thousands of birds
- US seeks reinstatement of charge in BP spill case
- Gulf Coast oil spill settlement: BP should pay up—"It's outrageous for the company to wriggle out of the settlement for the Gulf Coast oil spill."
- BP Faces Billions in Spill Payments After Court Upholds Deal—Supreme Court appeal is last ditch effort.
- Duke Says Disposal of Coal-Ash May Cost Up to $10 Billion
- Duke Energy spends tiny percentage of revenue on coal ash cleanup
- Appeals court won't stay order that Duke Energy must stop coal ash leaks—"[I]t is unlikely the ruling will lead to any immediate action by Duke.... The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, which regulates ash ponds, disagrees with the judge's interpretation of the law. And the state has joined Duke in appealing the Wake court's ruling." Wow.
- Citgo's Corpus Christi Environmental Crimes: Too Big to Punish—"After seven years of waiting, Corpus Christi pollution victims finally learned what restitution they'll be receiving from Citgo Petroleum Corp.: nothing."
- Pollution Is a Violent Crime—Prosecute It as Such—"The corporation doesn't have to pay compensation for pollution it caused in Texas. But pollution is a violent crime—and should be prosecuted as such."
- Oil giant Citgo gets off easy in criminal case
- 10 Years of Pollution, $2 Million in Penalties—"In Texas, an old pollution case is looming over new development."
- Murray Energy sues Labor Dept over coal dust rule—"An Ohio-based coal operator is suing the Obama administration, claiming that new federal regulations to cut the amount of coal dust in coal mines are overly burdensome and costly to industry."
- Feds lower level of coal dust allowed in mines
- EPA Hails Big Victory At Supreme Court—"It's not every day that environmentalists notch up a victory in the modern Supreme Court, but that's what happened Tuesday in a 6-2 decision upholding the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to crack down on coal pollution that moves across state lines."
- Justice Scalia Makes Epic Blunder In Supreme Court Opinion
- Court strikes down Minnesota's landmark anti-coal law—Supreme Court ruling came too late? Salon
- Stanford becomes the most prominent university yet to divest from coal—"Following student protests across the country, Stanford becomes the 12th university to announce it's divesting from coal companies." WaPo
- In Landmark Ruling, Jury Says Fracking Company Must Pay $3 Million To Sickened Family
- California City Becomes First To Vote To Ban Fracking
- Santa Cruz, Calif., bans fracking—"Scenic coastal area becomes first county in California to do so as issue becomes a statewide concern."
- Local anti-fracking activist wins world's largest environmental prize
- EPA Takes First Step Toward Regulating Fracking Chemicals
- EPA changes course on injection well approval—"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken the unusual step of withdrawing its February approval of a 7,300-foot-deep injection well being drilled to permanently store shale gas drilling waste water near DuBois, Clearfield County."
- Fracking's Air Pollution Drives Couple From Their Home of 23 Years
- Illegal Dumping of Texas Frack Waste Caught on Video—"The waste fluid from oil and gas drilling is often disposed of wherever it is convenient and out of sight, Texas watchdog group says."
- North Carolina GOP Pushes Unprecedented Bill to Jail Anyone Who Discloses Fracking Chemicals
- Read The Secret Trade Memo Calling For More Fracking and Offshore Drilling
