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Texas House OKs rules to prohibit city fracking bans
2015-04-17 21:59:42| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Cities and counties in Texas could no longer prohibit hydraulic fracturing under an oil and gas industry-backed measure overwhelmingly approved by the House. The bill passed Friday comes months after the city of Denton banned local fracking over environmental and safety concerns.
Judges raise doubts over challenge to Obama's climate change rules
2015-04-16 23:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two out of three judges on a federal appeals court panel expressed doubts Thursday about a legal challenge to the Obama administrations far-reaching plan to address climate change. The comments came during nearly two hours of argument before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in two cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agencys proposal to cut heat-trapping pollutants from the nations coal-fired power plants that is blamed for global warming. Obama's plan to...
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Court rules deforestation Peruvian rainforest for chocolate was legal
2015-04-16 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: United Cacao didn't need authorization to clear its plantation near Tamshiyacu, said a court in Loreto, Peru, resolving for the time being one of a series of questions about the legality and environmental sustainability of companies connected with plantations entrepreneur Dennis Melka. Forest along an Amazon tributary near where the controversial Cacao del Peru Norte cocoa plantation is being developed. Photo by Morgan Erickson-Davis. A regional court in Loreto, Peru recently ruled that the...
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U.S. judges raise doubts about early challenge for EPA carbon rules
2015-04-16 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In the first legal test of the Obama administration's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, two of three federal judges hearing a challenge to the regulations on Thursday expressed skepticism about weighing in before they are formally adopted. More than a dozen states and Murray Energy Corp [MUYEY.UL] have filed lawsuits challenging the administration's proposal, which would require the U.S. power sector to slash carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels. Judges...
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Court rules GM is shielded from death claims by bankruptcy
2015-04-16 06:39:53| Automakers - Topix.net
This April 21, 2009, file photo shows General Motors world headquarters in Detroit. A federal bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday, April 15, 2015, that General Motors is shielded from death and injury claims potentially totaling billions of dollars tied to defective ignition switches in certain GM small cars.
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