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Court Rules Against Greens Endorsing Feds' Handling of Arctic Spill Response Plans

2015-06-12 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Houston Chronicle: A federal court on Thursday affirmed the Obama administrations oversight of Shells plans for cleaning up an oil spill should one occur during its work in the Arctic Ocean, delivering a blow to environmentalists who argued the governments scrutiny was superficial. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Interior Department regulators were right to subject Shells oil spill plans to a streamlined analysis, without conducting a broad environmental assessment...

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