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EPA Prepares to Update 'Outdated' Emissions Exemption for Power Plants

2013-08-20 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to update its 20-year-old toxic emissions standards for oil refineries as well as finalize new regulations by Dec. 2014 after a wave of public outcry has focused attention on little-known exemptions having to do with limiting emissions when power plants are shutting down, starting up or malfunctioning. Such emissions had previously been deemed outside of normal operations, and thus subject to exceptions. However, according to The Hill, the...

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Enbridge Seeks Exemption to Fast Track Pipeline Before Opposition Builds

2013-07-08 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: It may sound like a familiar story: a proposed pipeline that will carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of Canadian oil sands crude across the Midwest prairies is embroiled in a permit controversy. But this is not a story about Keystone XL. Enbridge Energys proposed Flanagan South pipeline, like Keystone XL, would connect with existing pipes to ferry crude oil from Alberta--and Montana and North Dakota--to refineries in the Midwest and the Gulf Coast. The 600 miles of 36-inch pipe would run...

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