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Obama Administration Proposes Stricter Rules for Crude Oil Trains to Halt Derailments
2014-07-23 18:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced details Wednesday of a proposal to make crude oil transportation safer, in a bid to prevent more derailments and the threats that accompany them. The proposal would phase out older DOT 111 tank cars that ship packing group I flammable liquids, a category that includes most Bakken crude oil. Retrofitting the tank cars to comply with new standards is the only way that wouldnt be phased out. Other elements of the proposal include braking controls,...
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President Obama seeks intellectual escape at late-night dinner tables
2014-07-20 19:11:05| Automakers - Topix.net
President Barack Obama had just disembarked from Air Force One and was still on the tarmac in Rome when he turned to his host, John R. Phillips, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, with an unexpected request: How about a dinner party tomorrow night? Over the next 24 hours, the startled Phillips and his wife, the former Obama aide Linda Douglass, ... (more)
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138,000 species threat as Obama approves gas and oil exploration
2014-07-20 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: US president Barack Obama has approved a project that will open up an area off the east coast of the US to oil and gas exploration with the use of sonic cannons -- which are highly damaging to marine wildlife. The decision to use sonic cannons was approved by The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Their deployment is quite common in drilling operations. However, a White House report has stated that 138,000 sea creatures could actually be hurt by the new project by exploration and the use...
Obama opens Eastern Seaboard to oil exploration
2014-07-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Obama administration is reopening the Eastern Seaboard to offshore oil and gas exploration, approving seismic surveys using sonic cannons that can pinpoint energy deposits deep beneath the ocean floor. Friday's announcement is the first real step toward what could be a transformation in coastal states, creating thousands of jobs to support a new energy infrastructure. But it dismayed environmentalists and people who owe their livelihoods to fisheries and tourism. The cannons create noise...
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Obama Seeks to Spark More Private Infrastructure Financing
2014-07-17 22:47:26| ENR.com: Headline News
Plan includes a new DOT center to identify and surmount barriers to broader use of public-private partnerships.
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