• California officials profess surprise: fracking’s been going on for decades in their state [Coyote]
• Taxpayers fund Long Island Soundkeeper enviro group, affiliated with RFK Jr.’s Waterkeeper network, and a Connecticut state lawmaker does rather nicely out of that [Raising Hale]
• Backgrounder on Louisiana coastal erosion suit [New Orleans Times-Picayune] “Lawsuit Blaming Oil Companies For Wetland Loss Might As Well Blame The Plaintiffs” [Daniel Fisher, Forbes]
• US ties for worst of 25 countries when it comes to delay in mining permits [Sharon Koss, NTU] “Number One in DataMining” [@sonodoc99]
• “BP Is Rapidly Becoming One Giant Law Firm” [Paul Barrett, Bloomberg Business Week]
• “Mann v. Steyn — Mann wins round one” [Adler]
• An insider’s view of EPA and how it uses power [Brent Fewell]

Filed under: BP Transocean oil spill, Connecticut, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Louisiana, oil industry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.