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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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Environmentalists praise fed ruling on San Onofre
2013-05-14 05:45:24| Energy - Topix.net
A federal panel Monday sided with environmentalists who have called for lengthy hearings on a plan to restart the ailing San Onofre nuclear power plant - a decision that further clouds the future of the twin reactors.
Ewart: Environmentalists might burst Alberta's bubble
2013-05-11 19:01:34| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
When Alberta's oil and gas regulator this week forecast oilsands production would double to 3.8 million barrels a day in less than 10 years, the rosy outlook ignored the potential for opponents to burst the province's bubble.
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College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists
2013-05-10 09:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: At about 300 colleges across the country, young activists worried about climate change are borrowing a strategy that students successfully used in decades past. In the 1980s, students enraged about South Africa's racist Apartheid regime got their schools to drop stocks in companies that did business with that government. In the 1990s students pressured their schools to divest in Big Tobacco. This time, the student activists are targeting a mainstay of the economy: large oil and coal companies....
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Environmentalists fight for $100M Maine wind farm
2013-04-28 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Professional guides and sporting camp owners are opposing a proposed $100 million wind farm in eastern Maine they say will forever spoil the region's wilderness character. Environmental groups say the project will cut pollution, create jobs and bring clean energy to the state. The sides will square off when the Department of Environmental Protection holds two days of hearings this week on First Wind's application to build a 16-turbine, 48-megawatt wind farm, known as the Bowers Wind project, in...
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