NRDC in the News 5/10: Keystone pipeline spill, Patagonia dam, beachwater quality and more....
Posted May 10, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
Anthony Swift spoke with the Wall Street Journal about an oil spill in North Dakota caused by TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline system, which the company has been lobbying to expand across the States… An Associated Press piece carried by Forbes quoted Robert F. Kennedy about the Chilean government’s approval this week of five dams in southern Patagonia; Time, Huffington Post, Guardian UK, and other outlets also carried the story… Lisa Speer was quoted in a Reuters article about a meeting in Greenland tomorrow between the leaders of the Arctic nations and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton… NRDC’s new Smarter Living webpage was cited and linked to in a TreeHugger piece discussing a new study that found fresh food diets quickly reduce Bisphenol-A content in the human body…
A Toledo Blade article referenced NRDC’s 2010 Testing the Waters report when discussing the safety of Ohio beachwater… NRDC’s analysis of Los Angeles’ I-710 freeway corridor’s disproportionate impact on adjacent communities was cited in an article on the hyper-local blog site Patch.com…
