Health & Safety Newsletter
May 13, 2010
This Week´s Featured News Stories
The gulf of Mexico oil spill: an accident waiting to happen
It"s hard to believe now, as oil from the wrecked Deepwater Horizon well encroaches on the Louisiana marshes. But it was only six weeks ago that President Obama announced a major push to expand offshore oil and gas drilling. Obama"s commitment to lift a moratorium on offshore drilling reflected the widely-held belief that offshore oil operations, once perceived as dirty and dangerous, were now so safe and technologically advanced that the risks of a major disaster were infinitesimal, and managing them a matter of technocratic skill.  But in the space of two weeks, both the politics and the ...
Details Emerge on the American Power Act
The long-awaited US climate bill ("the American Power Act") is set to be formally unveiled today by its key proponents in the U.S. Senate (Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman) , with a last ditch effort the Obama administration urging quick passage of the controversial legislation this year.  At the heart of the new bill is a binding commitment to cut US carbon emissions by 17 per cent on 2005 levels by 2020, supported by an emissions trading scheme to be launched in 2013, initially to cover power firms, but ultimately to be expanded to cover other carbon intensive industries.  Based ...
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