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E.P.A. Rules on Emissions at Existing Coal Plants Might Give States Leeway
2013-09-24 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Four years ago, Congress rejected the idea of a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by putting a price on them. But the plan announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to regulate emissions from existing coal-fired power plants could foster creation of such a system, at least on a regional basis, and a push for renewable energy and energy efficiency in states that so far have embraced neither. It could also leave the business of carbon regulation in the hands...
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Alaska fracking rules would boost public notice, disclosure
2013-09-24 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New regulations to oversee hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in Alaska could be issued later this year by state regulators, officials said at a public hearing on Monday. The regulations, proposed by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, would require the approval of regulators before fracturing is conducted, notification of landowners and testing of water wells within a half-mile radius, and the full disclosure of chemicals in the hydraulic-fracturing liquids. While "fracking"...
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Australia: NSW under pressure to water down rules on coal seam gas
2013-09-23 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: New South Wales is under intense pressure to water down tough coal seam gas regulations announced before the federal election as the Abbott government vows "anarchist" anti-CSG protesters who disrespect the law will not sway its determination to kick-start the industry. As protests to proposed new coal seam gas wells escalated before the federal election, the NSW government, with the encouragement of the then federal Coalition resources spokesman, Ian Macfarlane, and to the dismay of the gas industry,...
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EPA sets out revised carbon emission rules for power plants
2013-09-23 09:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Advocates for the coal and utilities industries criticised new proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency to curb carbon emissions from newly-constructed power plants on Friday. The rules, based on the US Clean Air Act, have been made to support the Climate Action Plan announced by President Obama in July. In making this proposal, the EPA backed down on an original proposal made last year, which applied identical limits to gas and coal-fired plants. That rule may have been subject to a legal...
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Energy nominee Ron Binz loses voltage with contradictions, Obama coal rules
2013-09-23 09:31:23| Energy - Topix.net
President Obama's nominee to a top energy post is hanging on by a thread after a poor performance last week at a confirmation hearing where he failed to win over key supporters and even appeared to have misled a Senate committee about his record of support for a coal-fired energy plant.
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