Here are some of the top stories we followed this week:
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Oil train courtesy of http://housedemocrats.wa.gov/
Democrats present an anti-fracking bill for federal lands. The bill is being called by some legislators as the strongest bill of its kind.
- Beer drinkers are banning together to fight against fracking, saying it can damage the quality of the popular beverage.
- India is working to make the use of coal ash bricks mandatory in construction.
- A fracking wastewater tank explosion in Colorado has nearby residents and officials worried about contaminated water.
- A large fracking study will be released this summer. The EPA expects it will add to the national dialogue on the controversial drilling practice.
- A pipeline ruptured in Alaska two years ago, sending oil sands into the surrounding area. Exxon will pay more than $5 million in federal fines.
- Environmental organizations have filed a second suit against the TVA regarding coal ash.
- Minnesota House debates “blast zones” for trains. Both parties want to make the trains safer, but there is no consensus how to do it.
- An emergency order by the Department Of Transportation lowered the speed of oil trains to 40 miles per hour in populated areas.
- Here’s another article on how the federal government is addressing the recent oil train spills and how they plan preventing them in the future.
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