NRDC in the News 11/2: Keystone XL accountability, Indian Point nuclear plant, ESA and more...
Posted November 2, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
Frances Beinecke was quoted in Examiner.com, stating that the American people will hold President Obama accountable for the Keystone XL decision… Anthony Swift spoke with Inside Climate News explaining that there are health and safety reasons for encouraging better disclosure of the chemicals found in diluted bitumen, or “dilbit” oil, which would flow through the tar sands pipeline; the story also ran on the Reuters news wire… In a Bloomberg BusinessWeek article, Anthony discussed Nebraska lawmakers’ plan to reroute the TransCanada Pipeline due to concerns about contamination risk to the Ogallala Aquifer… Anthony’s blog was also cited in a Reuters story about the Keystone XL pipeline…
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz had the last word in a Montreal Gazette article on President Obama’s acknowledgement of the risks of the tar sands pipeline… Susan also commented on the growing opposition to the Keystone XL project and Obama’s remarks on the project in the Los Angeles Times’ Nation Now blog...
Ashok Gupta commented on the risks of nuclear energy from plants such as Indian Point for Energybiz.com… and in McClatchy Newspapers, Doug Obegi praised the Supreme Court’s decision not to review a challenge to the Endangered Species protections for California’s delta smelt…
