Posts by David O. Williams
EPA requires gas and oil companies to disclose release of potentially deadly gas
Community activists have urged more protections as oil drilling nears more dense population areas in western states, states like North Dakota have threatened to sue about some new rules.
After Giffords shooting, Palin aide says ‘crosshairs’ really surveyor marks
An aide to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on a conservative radio program Sunday that last year’s much-maligned ads by Palin’s PAC showing rifle crosshairs over 20 Democratic congressional districts – including Gabrielle Giffords’s CD8 in Arizona – were actually meant to represent surveyor’s symbols on a map.
Coloradans face wait before commission rules on Xcel execs’ excesses
With St. Paul–based Xcel Energy on pace to disconnect power to some 70,000 Coloradans this year for nonpayment, energy activists there are openly questioning why ratepayers should pick up the tab for lavish executive board-member dinners, hotel and spa retreats and luxury box tickets to professional sports games. But those who want the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to establish a firm policy cracking down on such excesses likely won’t get their wish anytime soon, according to a commission spokesman.
