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My View: Oregon is the real star of 'Wild' movie
2016-06-16 01:35:14| PortlandOnline
Oregon Could Widen Carbon Trading across North America
2016-06-14 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Oregon regulators are studying how to design an economywide carbon cap-and-trade system that would be able to link with other similar programs in neighboring states and provinces. While a bill to actually implement a cap-and-trade system eluded state lawmakers in the legislative session that ended in March, they did direct the state Department of Environmental Quality to study "a market-based approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions." DEQ staff are beginning the study now and said Friday...
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Oregon Dems push for more federal inspections at derailment site
2016-06-12 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Oregons two Democratic senators are pushing a federal safety board to join the investigation into last weeks oil trail derailment in their state. In a letter to the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Sens. Ron WydenRon WydenOregon Dems push for more federal inspections at derailment site Overnight Finance: Ryan's new rules for spending bills | House hopes for strong Puerto Rico vote | Obama, Indian leader vow to boost trade ties The Trail 2016: Democratic Healing MORE...
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Oregon explosion reminds us oil trains are weapons of mass destruction
2016-06-07 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: An oil train that went off the tracks and burst into flames in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon last week hasn`t been cleaned up yet, but the railroad is already back to business as usual. And many North Americans are feeling renewed anxieties about the danger of what activists call "bomb trains." On Friday, 16 Union Pacific train cars filled with highly combustible fracked oil from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota derailed outside Mosier, Ore. Multiple cars caught fire, and about...
Oil train derails in Oregon
2016-06-06 02:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Multiple tanker cars of an oil train derailed Friday in Oregon, causing a fire and a large plume of black smoke. The derailment happened near Mosier, Ore., in the Columbia River Gorge, an important natural area where protesters say oil trains shouldn't be allowed, the Oregonian reported. The incident is the latest in a string of high-profile oil train derailments and fires. Spurred by an explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec in July 2013, among other disasters, regulators in the United States...
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