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U.S. EPA Weighs In: Keystone XL Climate Impact Not Adequately Addressed
2013-04-24 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has challenged the State Department on its draft environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL pipeline, objecting to its conclusion that the Keystone XL presents no significant climate change impact or environment risk. This criticism raises an important hurdle in the overall executive review process for its approval, and gives the pipelines opponents additional support in their fight against the project. The U.S. EPAs challenge comes alongside...
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EPA on Keystone XL: Significant Climate Impacts from Tar Sands Pipeline
2013-04-24 02:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: In a draft assessment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, consultants for the U.S. State Department judged that building it would have no significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Why? Because the analysts assumed the tar sands oil would find a way out with or without the new pipeline. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not agree. Keystone XL's ability to carry an additional 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day is vital to expanded production of the tarry crude in Alberta....
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Court Backs E.P.A. Veto of Mining Permit
2013-04-24 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to revoke a mining permit to protect streams and wildlife, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The decision was a victory for the agency, which in 2011 retroactively vetoed a permit granted by the Bush administration in 2007 to allow a subsidiary of Arch Coal of St. Louis to dump tons of mining waste into several West Virginia rivers and streams. The veto was declared illegal in a 2012 decision by Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Federal District...
EPA criticises State Departments review of Keystone pipeline
2013-04-24 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
On Monday the US environment regulatory, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), criticised the State Department's environmental impact review of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will carry Canadian tarsands oil from Alberta to Nebraska.
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Court Orders EPA to Impose Power Plant Water Pollution Rule
2013-04-24 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must meet a court-ordered deadline to issue regulations that clean up power plant water pollution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled today. The decision turns back an attempt by the utility industry to avoid the financial and operational burdens of the regulations. On Friday, the EPA proposed a series of regulatory options for controlling pollution from power plants, such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium, released into...
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