Pennsylvania regulators ordered Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) to install pressure gauges costing as little as $600 on 114 of its wells after natural gas contaminated drinking water last year.
Officials rejected a call from environmental groups to order safety devices for all similar natural-gas wells, a requirement in neighboring Ohio.
Fracking Opens Fissures Among States
Republican Security Advisers Tied to $40 Billion in Contracts
National security advisers to the Republican presidential candidates have ties to defense, homeland security and energy companies that have received at least $40 billion in federal contracts since 2008.
Five of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s 41 national security and foreign policy advisers have links to companies that last year alone received at least $7.9 billion in federal contracts, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Government analyst Christopher Flavelle. Of that, $7.3 billion came from the Department of Defense.
Justice Dept. rejects South Carolina voter ID law
The Justice Department has rejected South Carolina's voter-identification law, saying it discriminates against minorities.
Update at 4:55 p.m. ET: In a speech earlier this month to the American Constitution Society, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez noted the South Carolina law in explaining the Justice Department efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act and other statutes:
Large Hadron Collider team detect 'new particle'
Large Hadron Collider scientists including a group from the UK believe they have detected their first new subatomic particle. Known as Chi (the Greek X symbol) b (3P), it is a "boson" like the fabled Higgs particle believed to underpin mass.
Chib(3P) provides a new way of combining two other elementary particles, the "beauty" quark and its antiquark, so that they bind together. Quarks are the building blocks of protons and neutrons, which form the cores of atoms.
Gay-friendly clergy disinvited from SF church
Most Holy Redeemer Church, a Catholic parish in the middle of the Castro, is in trouble again with church leaders over how best to minister to its heavily gay and lesbian congregation.
In the latest incident, Archbishop George Niederauer had the church's pastor, the Rev. Steve Meriwether, rescind invitations to a trio of gay-friendly clergy scheduled to speak at a series of pre-Christmas evening services.
Potbelly Globalists Want You Dead – The Kissinger Report
“World population needs to be decreased by 50%” — Dr. Henry Kissinger
National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM 200) A.K.A. “The Kissinger Report” (released internally late December of 1974) was crafted by globalist advisor, eugenicist, former Secretary of State, and director of the National Security Council (NSC) during the Ford and Nixon era, Henry Kissinger. This memorandum is one of many indicators that diabolic withering potbelly globalists want a major portion of the world populace dead, and are in the midst of exterminating humans incrementally, and have been for some time.
The document (declassified in 1989) reads like a horror story.
Lockerbie bomber: 'I am an innocent man
The only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has again protested his innocence as Scotland's law chief pledged to find the answers victims' families are waiting for.
He reiterated his claim that he was not involved in the bombings in what he said was the last interview he would give before his death. The interview, published in several UK newspapers on Thursday, was reportedly filmed by the investigator and former policeman George Thomson on Saturday.
Israel gearing for effective separation of East Jerusalem Palestinians
Last week, a new border crossing was opened in East Jerusalem's Shoafat neighborhood, to little fanfare. Two days later, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat asserted that Israel should relinquish Palestinian neighborhoods of the capital that are beyond the separation barrier, despite the fact that their residents carry Israeli identity cards.
Some people view these events as two pieces of the same puzzle. A third piece is the resumption of work on separate roads for Israelis and Palestinians between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim.
Regulators approve nuclear reactor design they say is safe
Federal regulators have approved a nuclear reactor designed by Westinghouse Electric that could power the first nuclear plants built from scratch in this country in more than three decades.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission unanimously approved the AP1000 reactor Thursday. The certification, effective immediately, will be valid for 15 years.
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