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Environmental Groups Seek End to EPA Biomass Exemption
2013-12-30 14:21:00| Waste Age
Environmental groups in 23 states have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to end its three-year exemption of biomass power plant greenhouse gas emissions from Clean Air Act permitting. read more
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Inspector General Report Finds EPA Should Act Protect Texas Drinking Water From Oil
2013-12-28 03:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collection: A new report was released by the EPA Inspector General (IG)--the environmental agencys independent internal watchdog-- regarding drinking water contamination linked with natural gas operations in Parker County, Texas, just west of Ft. Worth. The report is a result of an extremely in-depth investigation by the IG of EPAs enforcement of this case, which started in 2010, and then the agencys controversial move to abruptly drop the case in 2012. Its a complicated case with various legal and scientific...
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Five years after Tennessee coal-slurry disaster, EPA has produced no new rules
2013-12-26 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Five years ago, in the dead of night, a torrent of more than a million gallons of slurry broke free from its holding place at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Tennessee. The toxic stew of coal fly ash, which is produced when coal is burned, polluted waterways and 300 acres of land. The disaster triggered anger from residents and promises from the EPA to introduce new rules to prevent such accidents. The anger is still there. But the government promises appear to have been broken. The...
The EPA Screwed Up When It Dropped Fracking Investigation
2013-12-25 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was criticized in an internal report for dropping charges that Range Resources Corp was polluting drinking water while "fracking" for natural gas. Range is using the hydraulic fracturing technique in Parker County, Texas where one homeowner complained in August 2010 that he could set his drinking water on fire. Six U.S. senators had asked the agency's internal watchdog - the Office of the Inspector General - to evaluate a 2012 decision to drop an order...
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Inspector general finds EPA followed protocol in fracking case
2013-12-25 14:23:36| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Range Resources attorney David Jackson presents photo evidence to the Texas Railroad Commission in 2011 over the EPA's claims they had contaminated water supplies in Parker County.
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