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US Supreme Court refuses challenge to California climate rule
2014-07-01 14:41:23| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to California's landmark low-carbon fuel standard, in a blow to out-of-state ethanol and gasoline producers that say the rule unfairly discriminates against their products. A coalition of fuel makers, led by the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, a grower of corn and soybeans for ethanol in western states, brought a lawsuit to overturn a 2009 rule mandating cuts in carbon emissions. The California regulation calculates emissions throughout...
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Activists say California fighting pollution globally but not locally
2014-07-01 12:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Anchorage Daily News: In the San Francisco Bay Area oil port city of Martinez, where a colossal Shell refinery has long tainted the air, the landmark California law that requires polluters to ease their carbon footprint seemed to some to promise new relief. But one big move by Shell to comply with rules on greenhouse gas emissions won't do much for Martinez. It will instead give a boost to the environment in the pristine Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where the oil company is helping preserve a 200,000-acre forest. ...
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California Drivers Pay a Lot for Costly Alaskan Oil
2014-07-01 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Heading into the Fourth of July weekend, a gallon of regular gasoline on the West Coast averages a penny over $4, the highest price of any region in the country. Costly Alaskan oil is a key factor in these high gas prices, and that oil is gradually running out. Across the U.S., retail gas prices are the highest theyve been heading into an Independence Day weekend since 2008--although they have been higher at other seasons in the past six years. Strife in Iraq is one factor propping up the price...
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US DoT issues RoD for California High-Speed Rail System
2014-07-01 01:00:00| Railway Technology
The US Department of Transportation (DoT)'s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has issued a record of decision (RoD) for the 114-mile Fresno to Bakersfield section of the California High-Speed Rail System.
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California low-carbon rule survives big legal challenge
2014-06-30 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, one of the centerpieces of the state's fight against global warming, survived a significant legal challenge Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit brought by oil-industry and out-of-state farm groups. The court let stand a 2013 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the state's low-carbon fuel standard. But opponents of the law said there will be more litigation against the standard under different legal theories....
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