Top Energy and Health News: Frack report; Myanmar destruction
Top energy and health news hand-picked by our journalists and researchers
October 27, 2017
Top energy and health news of the week for Oct. 20 - Oct. 27.
Top News
- Fracking chemicals and kids' brains don't mix: Study
- How Bengal's Mejia Power Plant is wrecking the lives of the people it's supposed to benefit (Source: The Wire)
- Coal more toxic than shale gas, study finds (Source: R&D Mag)
- Burning down the house: Myanmar's destructive charcoal trade (Source: Mongabay)
Coal
- China's new antipollution push could cool its growth engine (Source: NY Times)
- Can solar save a huge coal plant? Zinke's thinking about it (Source: E&E News)
- Coal Burying Goa: All along the road route, the black dust settles (Source: The Indian Express)
- Sea levels to rise 1.3m unless coal power ends by 2050 (Source: The Guardian)
Oil & Gas
- Trump to auction off a vast swath of the Gulf of Mexico to oil companies (Source: Washington Post)
- U.S. marine sanctuary oil drilling report sent to Trump, not public (Source: Reuters)
- Oil pipeline opponent uses 'necessity defense.' What is it? (Source: AP)
