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Obama Cancels Arctic Drilling Leases
2015-10-17 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: It just keeps getting better and better for the Arctic. First, Shell Oil pulled the plug on its horrific current drilling effort there two weeks ago. Now the Obama administration has taken its first concrete steps to reduce future threats. Yesterday, it cancelled new lease sales scheduled for next year and 2017 in our Polar Bear Seas--the Chukchi and Beaufort--off the north Alaskan coast. And just said "No" to extension requests from Shell and others holding existing leases in the region. This...
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In major setback for Arctic drilling, Obama administration cancels two oil lease sales
2015-10-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Citing Shells decision to indefinitely cancel plans to explore for oil in the Chukchi Sea after drilling an initial, unsuccessful test well, the Interior Department late Friday announced it was canceling two Arctic ocean oil lease sales scheduled for 2016 and 2017. The agency also cited a lack industry nominations of specific areas of exploration interest as a reason for not going forward. The sales canceled involved one lease in the Chukchi Sea and another in the Beaufort Sea, to the northwest...
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Obama Poses for Wedding Photos with California Couple
2015-10-13 23:28:26| Biotech - Topix.net
Obama was playing golf on Sunday at the world famous Torrey Pines course in San Diego's upscale La Jolla neighborhood, where Brian Tobe and his bride, Stephanie Mirkin, were getting married, the couple's wedding photographer, Jeff Youngren, said in an email. The couple delayed their ceremony so the president could finish his game at the 18th hole, in front of where the wedding was set to take place, according to a blog written by their other photographer, Erin Youngren.
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Obama Backs Dec. 31 Deadline for Rail Safety
2015-10-08 16:08:16| Railroads - Topix.net
Investigators and first responders work near the wreckage of an Amtrak passenger train carrying more than 200 passengers from Washington, DC to New York that derailed late last night May 13, 2015 in north Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At least five people were killed and more than 50 others were injured in the crash.
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Obama doubles down on Arctic drilling regs
2015-10-06 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Obama administration still plans to issue regulations for oil and natural gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean despite Royal Dutch Shell's decision to abandon its drilling efforts for the foreseeable future. Brian Salerno, director of the Interior Departments Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), said regulators are moving forward with their rules, even though drilling is not likely to return to the Arctic for years, or even decades. It still matters, Salerno told Platts...
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