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The Grand Oil Party: House Republicans denounce a carbon tax
2016-06-13 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Friday, the US House of Representatives voted on a Resolution condemning a carbon tax. As The Hill reported: Lawmakers passed, by a 237-163 vote, a GOP-backed resolution listing pitfalls from a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and concluding that such a policy would be detrimental to American families and businesses, and is not in the best interest of the United States. Six Democrats voted with the GOP for the resolution. No Republicans dissented. The oil industry is scared of a carbon...
House backs symbolic measures to oppose oil fee, carbon tax
2016-06-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Reinforcing its opposition to President Barack Obama's environmental agenda, the Republican-controlled House on Friday approved symbolic measures declaring hostility to two liberal ideas on fossil fuels. One measure disapproves of Obama's call for a $10-per-barrel fee on crude oil, while the other preemptively opposes a plan Obama has never advanced: a "carbon tax" on emissions from fossil fuels such as oil and coal. The House approved the oil-fee measure Friday on a 253-144 vote. Lawmakers...
House backs symbolic measures to oppose oil fee, carbon tax
2016-06-10 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Reinforcing its opposition to President Barack Obama's environmental agenda, the Republican-controlled House on Friday approved symbolic measures declaring hostility to two liberal ideas on fossil fuels. One measure disapproves of Obama's call for a $10-per-barrel fee on crude oil, while the other preemptively opposes a plan Obama has never advanced: a "carbon tax" on emissions from fossil fuels such as oil and coal. The House approved the oil-fee measure Friday on a 253-144 vote. Lawmakers...
White House Wants Government Suppliers to Address Climate Change
2016-06-10 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The Obama administration has sent American industry another signal about the need to address climate change. Under a rule proposed last month, companies doing business with the federal government would have to report whether they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions, their plans for paring emissions and the risks climate change poses to their operations. The rule wouldn't require disclosure or set emissions goals. While the proposal by the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (part...
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US House approves oil and gas pipeline safety bill
2016-06-10 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The US House of Representatives has approved bipartisan laws to improve oil and gas pipeline safety, as well as provide regulatory certainty in the transportation of energy commodities.
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