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EPA Announces Rule to Curb Power Plant Pollution

2015-10-01 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ThinkProgress: The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules Wednesday aimed at curbing the amount of pollution that power plants dump into streams. The rule, known as the Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines, targets steam electric power plants - plants that use steam to drive the electric generator - that dump large amounts of toxic pollutants into streams every year. The rule, according to the EPA, marks the first time the federal government has set limits on the amount of toxic metals...

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EPA Finalizes Rule to modernize Clean Water Act reporting.

2015-09-30 14:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

EPA-finalized rule modernizes Clean Water Act reporting for municipalities, industries, and other facilities. It requires regulated entities and state and federal regulators to use existing, available information technology to electronically report data required by National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program instead of filing written paper reports. According to EPA estimates, full implementation in 46 states and Virgin Islands Territory will save ~$22.6 million each year.

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Judges rule study not needed for oil sands project

2015-09-29 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Greenwire: Federal judges today denied environmentalists' challenge to a 600-mile pipeline carrying oil sands crude from Illinois to Oklahoma. Attorneys from the Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation told the court that the government should have conducted more thorough environmental assessments of Enbridge Inc.'s Flanagan South pipeline, but the three-judge appeals panel today rejected their argument. Central to environmentalists' case was their contention that the government should have analyzed...

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California Regs Set to Vote on Emissions-Cutting Fuel Rule

2015-09-25 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: California regulators are poised to restore a first-in-the-nation climate change program that requires a 10 percent cut in carbon emissions on transportation fuels sold in the state by 2020, despite oil industry objections that it could drive up gasoline prices. After the program survived a lengthy legal challenge from fuel makers, regulators are expected to vote Friday on the clean fuel standard, which environmentalists and some business groups are hailing as one of Californias most important...

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