Media Scan 3/29: drilling ban claims refuted; tar sands; disease clusters; more...
Posted March 29, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
Washington Post published a letter to the editor by Peter Lehner alongside a LTE by Michael Bromwich, the director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE); both letters refuted claims, presented in an op-ed earlier this week, that the temporary ban on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for a drilling company’s bankruptcy…
On National Public Radio, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz advocated against increasing U.S. dependence on oil from Canada’s tar sands; arguing that moving forward with the Keystone XL pipeline would tie us to those dirty tar sands oil for decades… A Reuters article carried by MSNBC quoted Gina Solomon and discussed NRDC’s new report that highlights the need for more federal coordination and assistance to solve the problem of disease clusters in communities around the country… Debbie Hammel discussed biomass fuels on KQED radio…
On The Hill’s E2 Wire blog, Franz Matzner applauded vulnerable Democrats who would vote in favor of public health and fight the GOP plan to rid EPA of its power to regulate greenhouse gases… In the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Matt Skoglund viewed today’s environmental challenges as a source of motivation within the environmental movement...
