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The EPA’s New Methane Rules for the Oil and Gas Industry
The Environment Protection Agency is proposing a new rule that would reduce methane emissions from oil and natural-gas drilling by 40 to 45 percent of 2012 levels by 2025. The rules would also amend…
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EPA takes important step on methane, but greater action needed
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to reduce methane from the oil and gas industry. This proposed rule is the latest part of the Obama administration’s st…
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Shells Arctic Ocean drilling reaches new depths
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement approved Shell’s revised drilling permit to allow the company to drill thousands of feet below the Chukchi Sea to where oil an…
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Obama To Visit Alaska, But Enviros Cry Foul Over Arctic Drilling
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is traveling to Alaska later this month to visit the front lines of climate change, which he called “one of the greatest challenges we face this century…
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Petition urges Obama administration to ban natural gas exports
Exports climb 1,000 percent during fracking boom that puts climate, environment at risk WASHINGTON. D.C. — Environmental groups filed a groundbreaking legal petition with the U.S. Department of Comm…
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As EPA finalizes Clean Power Plan, Senate committee aims to destroy it
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s (R-W.Va.) bill S. 1324, which allows states to opt out of the Clean Power Plan if they find…
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Dirty tax break, dirtier fuel
The U.S.’s operable refinery capacity — that is, the amount of crude oil that can be processed and sold to consumers as liquid fuel — is a whopping 18 million barrels per day. The Un…
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EPA includes carbon tax in final power plant rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants, under the Clean Air Act. The final rule has explicitly allow…
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EPA takes historic climate action, but its only a down payment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules to reduce carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, under the Clean Air Act. Electric power plants produce…
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Obama unveils sweeping cuts to power plant emissions: ‘We have to get going’
Six years after first promising to “roll back the spectre of a warming planet”, Barack Obama finally committed the US to unprecedented action against climate change on Monday, with sweeping new…