"Ahead of the EPA"
Colorado's experience may prove that EPA's new carbon rule is survivable.
Source: Boulder Weekly, 06/06/2014
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"Obama Emission Rules Discount Gas Leaks, Scientists Say"
"President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming underestimates pollution from natural gas, according to scientists studying how leaks affect the climate."
Source: Bloomberg, 06/06/2014
"Suit Seeks To Halt Plans for Richmond Oil Refinery Expansion"
"SAN FRANCISCO -- Environmental advocates seeking to curb Chevron's plans to modernize and expand its Richmond oil refinery sued Bay Area air-quality regulators Thursday, claiming they approved construction based on outdated reports that understated the plant's greenhouse gas emissions and the pollutants it would spew into surrounding neighborhoods."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 06/06/2014
"Island Nations Will Suffer First Shocks of Sea Changes"
"Climate change poses the greatest threats to the development of small island nations, a new U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) report out today finds."
Source: ClimateWire, 06/06/2014
"Fixes After BP Spill Not Enough, Board Says"
"Federal safety regulators warned on Thursday that another disastrous offshore oil well blowout could happen despite regulatory improvements in the four years since a BP well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and dumped millions of gallons of oil into the sea."
Source: NY Times, 06/06/2014
"Putin and the Federal Coal Lease in Montana"
"Will Russian President Vladimir Putin get richer thanks to a sweetheart government coal deal in Montana? Last month the Treasury Department informed Congress that Mr. Putin personally held an interest in an international oil and gas investment fund called the Gunvor Group, run out of Geneva, Switzerland. Team Putin adamantly denied his involvement, but the Treasury Department insisted it was right."
Source: Huffington Post, 06/05/2014
"Hundreds of Scientists To Canada PM: Pipeline Report 'Deeply Flawed'"
"Hundreds of scientists have signed a letter sent to Canada’s prime minister blasting a federal review recommending the approval of the Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline as biased, Canadian media reported."
Source: Aljazeera America, 06/05/2014
"Canada's 500,000 Leaky Energy Wells: 'Threat to Public'"
"A new University of Waterloo report warns that natural gas seeping from 500,000 wellbores represent 'a threat to environment and public safety' due to groundwater contamination, greenhouse gas emissions and explosion risks wherever methane collects in unvented buildings and spaces."
Source: The Tyee, 06/05/2014
"U.S. Sets New Import Duties on Chinese Solar Products"
"The United States slapped new import duties on solar panels and other related products from China on Tuesday after the Commerce department ruled they were produced using Chinese government subsidies, potentially inflaming trade tensions between the two countries."
Source: Reuters, 06/05/2014
TransCanada Shuts Down Southern Leg of KXL Pipeline, Raising Suspicions
"TransCanada shut down the southern leg of the Keystone XL (now called the Gulf Coast Pipeline Project) on June 2 for 'routine work,' according to Reuters. "
Source: DeSmogBlog, 06/05/2014
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