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NRC orders more research on earthquake risk at Diablo Canyon
Federal regulators Wednesday directed nuclear power plants in California and Washington state to conduct additional, in-depth research into earthquake risks by June 2017, part of a broad review of sei…
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US taxpayers subsidising world’s biggest fossil fuel companies
The world’s biggest and most profitable fossil fuel companies are receiving huge and rising subsidies from US taxpayers, a practice slammed as absurd by a presidential candidate given the threat of…
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Senators make push for crude exports
A group of senators on Wednesday unveiled the chamber’s first major legislative plan for lifting the nation’s longstanding ban on crude exports. Senators introduce crude export bill -Houst…
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Senators push to lift crude oil export ban
Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) have introduced a bill to lift the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. The bill would fulfill one of Murkowski’s biggest energy priori…
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What happens if we scrap the US oil exports ban?
The longstanding ban on most US crude oil exports could be on the way out. Senate Energy Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski (R) of Alaska and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) of North Dakota introduced a bill Wedn…
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Fast Track trade authority promises a sea of unsafe fish imports
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) with Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) will hold a press conference tomorrow on the dangers of Fas…
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Murkowski tries to end 40-year-old crude oil export ban
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a bill to repeal the 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil. The ban was a response to the…
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Extreme bee losses highlight urgent need to restrict pesticides to protect pollinators
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Bee Informed Partnership, in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America and the United States Department of Agriculture, released its annual report on honey…
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House continues extreme anti-environmental rampage
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives passed Rep. Bill Shuster’s (R-Pa.) bill, H.R. 1732, that would undermine the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Rule by a vote of 261-1…
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Senate blocks discussion of Trade Authority
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell failed to get the 60 votes necessary to begin debate on the Hatch-Wyden trade promotion authority bill. If passed the bill would grant Pres…