How a stupid ‘weather forecast’ turned into a full-blown political scandal, plus today’s other news

By Robert A. Vella It all began with an egomaniacal president interjecting himself into official weather forecasts for a powerful Continue reading →

Sunday Catch-up: News stories over the weekend you might’ve missed

By Robert A. Vella Here are some important news stories to catch-up on for this Sunday.  I wanted to publish Continue reading →

EPA’s science advisers challenge agency report on the safety of fracking

Science advisers to the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday challenged an already controversial government report on whether thousands of oil and Continue reading →

Colorado Court Strikes Down Local Bans on Fracking

Colorado’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down local government prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, handing oil and gas companies Continue reading →

EPA science advisers buck agency on fracking safety

The 31-member Science Advisory Board is taking issue with the EPA’s conclusion in a landmark report from June that there Continue reading →

California shuts 33 wells injecting oil wastewater into aquifers

California regulators on Thursday closed 33 oil company wells that had injected wastewater into potentially drinkable aquifers protected by federal Continue reading →

Premature Births, At-Risk Pregnancies Linked To Fracking, Data Review Finds

In the study, published Sept. 30 in the journal Epidemiology, scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley Continue reading →

Shell Abandons Disappointing Offshore Alaskan Well

LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell said Monday that it would stop exploration off the coast of Alaska “for the foreseeable Continue reading →