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Duke Energy agrees to accept punishment on nine misdemeanor charges in coal ash probe

2015-02-22 00:30:54| Energy - Topix.net

Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good says the spill on the Dan River has had a profound affect on the company. Duke Energy Corp. has reached a proposed plea agreement with federal prosecutors on nine misdemeanor violations of the Clean Water Act to settle a federal grand jury investigation spurred by last year's massive coal ash spill.

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Small Islands Won't Accept Weak Paris Climate Deal, Maldives Official Says

2015-02-12 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RTCC: Small island states have not given up hope of a global climate deal that restricts warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, a senior negotiator representing the Maldives has told RTCC. Maldives ambassador Ahmed Sareer, who recently assumed the presidency of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) at UN climate talks, said the future of his country depended on an ambitious deal in Paris later this year. 1.5C is still within reach its clear that science has shown this is possible,...

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NY Landfills Accept 460,000 Tons of PA Drilling Waste, Study Says

2015-02-06 17:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Lohud: At least 460,000 tons and 23,000 barrels of waste from Pennsylvania drilling operations have been taken in by a few New York landfills since 2010, a new analysis Thursday indicates. The report from Environmental Advocates of New York analyzed state data from Pennsylvania showing where natural-gas drillers reported taking their waste. Drillers hauled waste to five New York landfills from 2010 through 2014, including three along the Pennsylvania border: Chemung County Landfill in Lowman; Hakes Landfill...

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Shell urges shareholders to accept climate resolution

2015-01-29 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Shell is set to confront the risk that climate change may pose to its future, after backing a resolution from activist shareholders. The move came on the same day it announced $15bn (10bn) in cost cutting due to plummeting oil prices and said it wanted to resume drilling for oil in the Arctic. The resolution, filed by 150 investors who control hundreds of billions of pounds, requires the oil major to test whether its business model is compatible with the pledge by the worlds nations to limit...

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