BP plans slow return to Gulf drilling

By Tom Bergin LONDON | Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:58pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – BP Plc has not yet applied for permission to drill its first new Gulf of Mexico oil well since the 4 million-barrel Macondo spill a year ago, the oil major said on Tuesday, although it received permission this month to plug [...]

House passes bill to speed up oil sands pipe review

By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:13pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation that would set a firm deadline for the Obama administration to decide the fate of a proposed $7 billion pipeline that would transport Canadian oil sands crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The [...]

EPA delays smog rule for fourth time

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:08pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it would again delay issuing a final limit on smog pollution opposed by manufacturers and many Republican lawmakers until the Obama administration has finished reviewing it. In December, the agency said it would issue [...]

NOAA withdraws permission for sea lion killings

By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Ore | Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:58pm EDT PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) – The federal government reversed itself on Tuesday and withdrew permission it had granted to Oregon and Washington state to euthanize sea lions caught gobbling endangered salmon on the Columbia River. The turnaround by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [...]

Environmentalists, government debate wolf in court

By Lori Grannis MISSOULA, Montana | Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:16pm EDT MISSOULA, Montana (Reuters) – Environmentalists went to federal court on Tuesday seeking to restore endangered species safeguards for some 1,200 gray wolves in Montana and Idaho removed from protection by an unprecedented act of Congress. Conservation groups say Congress exceeded its authority by [...]

U.S. cities face water-related climate change dangers: study

By Lauren Keiper BOSTON | Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:25pm EDT BOSTON (Reuters) – Rising sea waters may threaten U.S. coastal cities later this century, while the Midwest and East Coast are at high risk for intense storms, and the West could see compromised water supplies. These are among the expected water-related effects of climate [...]

Helping the Environment

Helping the environment can be done in a large variety of ways. It is not simply about throwing money at random causes. In the majority of cases it could come down to recycling or simply donating time. There is so much good to be done in the fight against global warming. Here are some good [...]

Bangladesh Supreme Court intervenes in ship recycling decision

DHAKA | Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:51am EDT DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has recalled a lower court’s ruling last week that allowed ship breaking yards to continue operating through October, and will conduct its own review of the case on Thursday, a senior industry official said. The lower court last week gave the [...]

Storm batters Philippines, 10 people dead, 5 missing

MANILA | Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:11am EDT MANILA (Reuters) – Ten people died and five fishermen were missing in the central Philippines as storm Nock-Ten battered the main island of Luzon, suspending schools and grounding domestic flights and ferries, local officials said on Tuesday. The weather bureau raised storm alert levels in nearly 30 [...]

Eco activists detained at wind energy test site

COPENHAGEN | Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:19am EDT COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Police in Denmark detained six environmental activists on Tuesday protesting the felling of trees in a forest to make room for a research center for wind turbines. Protesters said they were not opposed to the center, but to the location. The test center is [...]

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