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Western Australia's EPA recommends approval for $2bn Perth airport rail link
2015-07-14 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Western Australia's Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has recommended the $A2.2bn ($2bn) project for conditional approval, which will start construction of the Forrestfield Airport Link that will extend Perth's rail network.
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Will Some Republican Governors Running for President Ignore EPA Coal Regs?
2015-07-10 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Some Republican governors who are running for president are threatening to ignore Environmental Protection Agency regulations likely coming this summer that would limit power plant emissions. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have both been the most vocal in telegraphing their planned resistance. To combat climate change, President Obamas goal is to cut carbon pollution 30 percent by 2030 and to reduce pollution that causes soot and smog by 25 percent from 2005 levels....
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EPA is underestimating methane emissions from the Barnett Shale - study
2015-07-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As the U.S. oil and gas industry emits carbon pollutants like CO2 and methane to the atmosphere, its emissions are tracked closely by federal regulators. But the federal tracking underestimates emissions of methane, which is the primary component of natural gas, in at least one major natural-gas-producing region in the United States: the Barnett Shale in the Dallas-Forth Worth area of Texas. The results were part of a series of 11 studies funded by the Environmental Defense Fund, an environmental...
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Obama's climate plan will survive if Republican elected EPA chief says
2015-07-07 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obamas main weapon in fighting climate change will survive even if Republicans win the White House in 2016, a key member of his administration said on Tuesday. Gina McCarthy, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency, said the carbon pollution rules that are the main pillar of Obamas climate plan would go ahead as planned despite a disappointing supreme court ruling last week against another EPA rule for mercury and other toxins, and attacks on the agencys authority from Republican-led...
6 Trending Headlines: Beef import rule draws cattle producers' ire, PLUS: EPA sued over Waters of the U.S. rule
2015-07-06 15:41:00| Beef
Both the news and the weather are hot this summer, as several different suits have been filed against the EPA over the Waters of the U.S. rule. read more
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