On Our Radar: Flood Risks and Reactors Two risk analysts at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accuse the agency of being sluggish and secretive about addressing flood risks at nuclear plants that are downstream from big dams. The Huffington Post The Supreme Court's chief justice has a testy oral exchange with a government lawyer over a new E.P.A. rule governing runoff from logging operations. An interactive graphic shows which countries were using the greatest amount of coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power and hydropower last year, and which ones were taking a lead on renewable energy. Nature Owning a piece of land is not the same as owning the rights to what is beneath its surface, a North Dakota family learns as a drilling boom upends their lives. The Guardian The South African company Sasol plans to build the first commercial plant in the United States that converts natural gas to diesel and other liquid fuels. It will be the second-largest plant of its kind in the world, after Royal Dutch Shell's Pearl plant in Qatar, and cost $11 billion to $14 billion.