Daily Archives: 2011/03/05

Pressure Limits Efforts to Police Drilling for Gas


When Congress considered whether to regulate more closely the handling of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the 1980s, it turned to the Environmental Protection Agency to research the matter. E.P.A. researchers concluded that some of the drillers’ waste … Continue reading

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Republicans attack Obama’s environmental protection from all sides


Yes, I know that it’s about the USA, reported in a British paper but we in Canada face a similar onslaught: Environmental protection in US under attack from extremist Tea Partiers backed by big business It started on a sultry … Continue reading

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