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Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline bill

2015-02-25 00:55:26| Green Car Congress

New Jersey Gov. Christie Vetoes Bill Aiming Ban Fracking Waste in State

2014-08-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Star-Ledger: For the second time in two years, Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have banned the dumping of fracking waste in New Jersey. Environmentalists and lawmakers from both parties had championed the measure, which would have prohibited companies from treating, discharging, disposing, and storing waste from hydraulic fracturing - the controversial practice of pumping water, sand, and chemicals deep underground to harvest natural gas. Though an increase in fracking has caused U.S. energy...

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Lawmakers Return To Richmond To Deal With Vetoes

2014-06-23 11:59:03| Chemicals - Topix.net

Most state lawmakers are returning to Richmond late Monday afternoon so they can react to Governor McAuliffe's latest vetoes.

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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley vetoes bill delaying wind farm projects

2014-05-16 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) on Friday vetoed a bill that would have delayed -- and likely derailed -- a proposed wind farm in Somerset County, saying the legislation would send "a chilling message' to the clean-energy industry if it became law. The governor's decision was praised by environmentalists and some officials on the Eastern Shore as a way to bring much-needed jobs and green energy to a part of the state that is struggling economically. But it ran counter to the wishes of U.S....

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