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EPA chief says Keystone Pipeline wouldn't climate 'disaster'

2015-03-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mashable: The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told a Washington audience on Monday that building the contentious Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico would not, by itself, constitute a "climate disaster." Many opponents of the pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico for export, argue that it would lead to the emissions of enough planet-warming greenhouse gases that it would be game over for efforts to constrain the amount...

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Canada Pushes Ahead with Alternatives to Keystone XL

2015-03-30 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: A decision on whether to allow the Keystone XL Pipeline to be built in the U.S. could come at any time, but there are myriad other projects on the table designed to do exactly what Keystone XL was designed to do: transport Canadian tar sands oil to refineries. Those pipelines, both in the U.S. and Canada, are being designed to move the oily bitumen produced from the tar sands to refineries in Texas and eastern Canada, and to ports on the Pacific Coast where the oil could be shipped to Asia. Combined,...

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Senator Casey Opposes Keystone Landfill Expansion Plan

2015-03-22 23:58:00| Waste Age

<a href="http://citizensvoice.com/">CitizensVoice.com</a> U.S. Sen. Bob Casey opposes Keystone Sanitary Landfills nearly half-century expansion plan and sees the proposal as more than just a local issue, the senator said during a Friday press conference at his Scranton office. read more

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