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Interior Department offers new rules for 'fracking'

2013-05-16 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: The Interior Department proposed new rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on federal land Thursday, drawing criticism from environmentalists that it had weakened an earlier draft to placate industry. Industry officials were not mollified, however, reiterating their objections to federal standards. Last year, they criticized the department's earlier draft rules as inflexible and onerous. "We are proposing some common-sense updates that increase safety while also providing flexibility...

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Interior Department Bows to Pressure from Oil and Gas Industry, Weakens Fracking Rules

2013-05-16 21:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: The U.S. Department of the Interiors Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing, on public lands today. The controversial oil and gas development technique--in which drillers blast millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth to force oil and gas from underground deposits--has been linked to air and water pollution and public health problems. Comparing todays rule governing fracking on public lands with the one proposed...

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U.S. Interior issues new draft fracking rules for federal lands

2013-05-16 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too burdensome for producers. The U.S. Interior Department scrapped a proposal from 2012 after drawing heat from green groups and the drilling industry over rules aimed at updating decades-old fracking regulations. "Our thorough review of all the comments convinced us...

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Proposed Fracking Rules Anger Environmentalists, Annoy Industry

2013-05-16 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Journal: The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for its first major regulation of hydraulic fracturing on public lands, attempting to address at least a portion of the controversial drilling practice thats unlocked vast new supplies of U.S. oil and gas but has also raised fears about its environmental impact, particularly on local water supplies. The proposal is softer on energy producers than an initial draft floated by the Interior Departments Bureau of Land Management last year....

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Russian Maritime Register of Shipping to introduce new rules for Arctic ships

2013-05-16 01:00:00| Ship Technology

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) is planning to introduce new requirements in its rules for vessels operating in Arctic seas.

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