NRDC in the News 9/30: Suing Shell, solar energy's benefits, TCE cancer finding, and more...
Posted September 30, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
In a Houston Chronicle's Fuelfix blog story about a lawsuit filed to block Shell Oil Company from exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea, Chuck Clusen commented that Shell is not prepared to clean up oil spills in Arctic waters… In an Associated Press piece, Henry Henderson discussed the risks of the proposed 500-mile Wrangler Pipeline which would run heavy oil from Oklahoma to Texas… In a Reuters Insider (Reuters online channel) television interview, Nathanael Greene debated ethanol and alternative energy policy…
In a Los Angeles Times article, Jennifer Sass affirmed the science behind a recent EPA report, which found that the widely used industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) causes cancer… Cai Steiger was quoted in the Huffington Post about the benefits of solar energy and the declining costs associated with installing solar technology… Eric Goldstein spoke to New York City's NPR station, WNYC, about the inadequacies of New York’s draft guidance on fracking… Josh Mogerman was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio station, WPR, about installing a permanent barrier to separate the Mississippi River and Great Lakes basins to stop the advance of Asian Carp and other invasive species.
