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Exxon seeks to use trucks to haul oil after pipeline break
2015-06-05 20:05:16| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
An oil company is seeking to use tanker trucks to haul oil through Santa Barbara County while the pipeline that spilled crude into the ocean last month is out of commission. The Los Angeles Times reports that Exxon Mobil officials on Thursday told county officials they want to use a fleet of 5,000-gallon tankers.
With pipeline ruptured, Exxon seeks to move oil with fleet of tankers
2015-06-05 13:49:31| Chemicals - Topix.net
How do you move thousands of gallons of crude a day with a key oil pipeline out of commission indefinitely? Exxon Mobil officials are seeking permission to truck the oil through Santa Barbara County after a ruptured pipeline sent oil spilling into the Pacific Ocean and brought the company's oil transportation operations to a halt. Corrosion had eaten away nearly half of the metal wall of a pipeline that ruptured and spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude oil along the Santa Barbara coast last month, federal regulators said Wednesday.
Marshall Islands, the flag for many ships, seeks to rein in emissions
2015-06-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Far out in the Pacific Ocean, the tiny Republic of the Marshall Islands has taken on a vital role in international shipping, with its flag flying over the third-largest number of ships in the world. So when the nations foreign minister showed up at a recent meeting of the International Maritime Organization and proposed limiting the amount of climate-warming gases that the shipping industry could emit, he caused a stir. Its a matter of survival for us, Tony de Brum, the minister of foreign...
Dechema Seeks Catalyst Award Entries
2015-06-04 14:21:00| Chemical Processing
Researchers worldwide can be nominated
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State Senate OKs climate change bill, seeks ban new offshore drilling
2015-06-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: State senators passed legislation Wednesday intended to help California tackle climate change by setting new targets for generating renewable energy, reducing gasoline use and increasing energy efficiency in buildings. The lawmakers also approved a measure that would ban new offshore oil drilling from an area in the Santa Barbara Channel known as Tranquillon Ridge, two weeks after an oil spill at nearby Refugio State Beach. The climate change bill, which now goes to the Assembly with other...
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