via E.P.A. Weighs Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas – NYTimes.com.

via Paying the Price of Coexistence with Big Oil – CBS News.

Lessons not learned…

“The strategy of continuing to exploit the economic opportunities of deep-water wells even as the hazards they represent becomes clearer is being pursued the world over.”

via Against backdrop of gulf spill, other nations move forward with deep-water drilling.

Banned or restricted in more than 50 countries, white asbestos continues to be widely used in China, India, Russia and Brazil, and many developing countries.

via BBC News – Dangers in the dust: Inside the global asbestos trade.

Waka Waka Dance – Haiti from Jonathan Wooley/RTC Pictures on Vimeo.

The waters around the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo are covered in a thick film of oil that has left the once lush mangroves looking like burnt twigs covered in grease. The air reeks of crude.

“I struggle everyday,” said fisherman Gaagaa Giadom, 60, paddling his blackened canoe through the meandering oil-coated creeks.

via Oil spills blight Nigeria’s creeks.

via Oil Companies Reap Billions From Subsidies – NYTimes.com.

“ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Interior Department is offering oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve while promising to protect critical migratory bird and caribou habitat.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/09/obama-to-open-up-18-milli_n_641559.html

A month ago, National Incident Commander Thad Allen issued an order granting the media “uninhibited access” to the areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was routinely and often brazenly ignored.

Thirty days later, it should be said that the order essentially has no real-world meaning at all. Here's Daniel Tencer at Raw Story:

via BP Media Clampdown: Journalists Now Face Possibility of Fines, Prison Time.