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Virginia to review natural gas fracking rules
2014-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Virginia is looking anew at regulations governing hydraulic fracking for natural gas, a drilling method that spawned a gold rush for the energy resource in the United States and given rise to its own environmental movement. The review comes ahead of a Dallas energy companys plans to drill in tens of thousands of leased acres south and east of Fredericksburg. To date, drilling for natural gas in Virginia occurred only in the southwest Coalfields region of the state. The Virginia Department...
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Tracking Obamas Climate Rules for Power Plants
2014-06-01 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Im heading to Beijing to participate in a week of meetings related to the unfolding international science effort called Future Earth, so I wont be able to weigh in in a timely fashion on President Obamas planned Monday release of regulations restricting carbon dioxide emissions from existing American power plants. You can follow coverage and commentary on this White House move in The Times here. An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in...
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White House turns blind eye on Democrats who oppose climate rules
2014-06-01 07:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Democrats in Republican-leaning states have a simple strategy for dealing with President Barack Obama's upcoming power plant restrictions before the mid-term elections: Fight them, with the White House's blessing. The new rules, popular with the Democratic Party's base, are one of Obama's highest domestic priorities for his second term. But they are complicating the lives of Democrats in coal and oil-rich states such as West Virginia, Louisiana and Alaska, where candidates are piling on the...
Throw The Old Rules Out The Window
2014-05-31 20:46:27| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Changes in China's environmental regulations, the first revision in 25 years, take effect January 1 next year with stiffer penalties for companies that flout the law.
Coal-plant rules add fuel to Senate races fire
2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courier-Jurnal: There was no quiet before this storm. Like a rising wind ahead of an approaching front, the debate over new rules limiting carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants - to be unveiled on Monday - was in full fury this week. Add one of the most important U.S. Senate races in the country to the mix and you have a controversy that will rage across Kentucky until November. At stake is nothing less than the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to address climate change. New regulations...
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