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Obamas carbon rules seen as new battleground for EPA
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys proposed limits on power-plant emissions blamed for climate change is a broad new battleground for an agency that has spent four decades focused on the local impact of pollutants such as lead, mercury and ozone. The draft regulations, issued yesterday, would impose the first cap on carbon emissions from new power plants, dealing a blow to the market for coal. While restrictions on emissions of sulfur dioxide and other pollutants have been in place for...
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Easing the transition from the battleground to the energy industry
2013-09-09 01:50:00| Offshore Technology
Can mass redundancies in the UK armed forces help plug a critical skills shortage in the oil and gas industry? Ex-serviceman and current oil and gas project engineer Magnus Jeffrey talks about the difficulties ex-military personnel face when looking
Coal: Data centers become battleground in war between fossil fuels, renewables
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: In investor reports and promotional efforts, utilities are increasingly touting their services to a lucrative growing customer base: cloud computing and data centers. "From Loudoun County in Northern Virginia to Mecklenburg County in Southside Virginia and stops in between," Dominion Resources Inc. says on its website, "data centers are expanding or building across our service area." And Duke Energy Corp.'s brand-new CEO, Lynn Good, said in a recent interview with Charlotte, N.C.'s WFAE-FM, "To...