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Fracking opponents win big in Pennsylvania
2013-12-23 17:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Robinson Township in western Pennsylvania is home to a couple thousand residents and about 20 fracked wells. In a resounding victory for common sense and for local governments throughout the state, residents there and in six other towns won an epic court battle last week that will give them back the right to regulate or even evict the fracking operations in their midst. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday struck down elements of a state law that had prevented local governments from regulating...
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Canada: Enbridge Gateway Win Shows Stopping Keystone Wont Halt Oil
2013-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Keystone XL backers say the proliferation of alternative projects, such as one to carry oil-sands crude to a Canadian seaport that advanced yesterday, undercuts opponents who claim blocking the pipeline will keep the high-carbon fossil fuel in the ground. Canadian energy regulators yesterday recommended approval with conditions of Enbridge Inc. (ENB)s Northern Gateway pipeline, a project that would bring as much as 525,000 barrels a day of crude to Kitimat, British Columbia. The recommendation,...
Navistar, rivals win delay of tougher emissions standards in Colombia
2013-12-21 12:27:36| Automakers - Topix.net
When Colombia tried narrowing the gap between its emissions standards and those of the United States and Europe, U.S. manufacturers pushed back.
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Go narrow rows to win
2013-12-20 17:26:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Narrow rows. Thats it. No bags, no software, no mixing or blending. Just switching from 30-inch rows to spacing of 20 inches or less boosted soybean yields an average of 2.9 bushels per acre. read more
Indigenous groups win right to pursue Chevron assets in Canada in Amazon pollution case
2013-12-20 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indigenous plaintiffs in a long-running legal dispute against Chevron won the right to pursue the oil giant's assets in Canada as part of a $9.5 billion judgement by an Ecuadorean court over damages in the Amazon, reports Amazon Watch. On Tuesday Ontario's Court of Appeal ruled that 47 Ecuadorean plaintiffs can proceed with an effort to seize Chevron's Canadian assets. The decision reversed an earlier ruling that the oil company didn't have any assets in Canada. In the ruling, the three judge...
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