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EPA to award up to $4M for projects to reduce diesel emissions from port fleets
2014-01-12 14:30:28| Green Car Congress
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EPA will let frackers keep on dumping chemicals into the sea
2014-01-10 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Companies that frack the seafloor off the coast of Southern California have some new federal rules to worry about. Unfortunately, the new rules will still allow their fracking fluids to be unleashed into the sea - including chemicals that are known to stunt human development and hurt wildlife. The companies will just have to tell the government what they`re unleashing. Under new rules that will take effect March 1, the companies must report the "chemical formulation, concentrations and discharge...
EPA Will Require Offshore Frackers to Report Chemicals Discharged Into Pacific
2014-01-09 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today established a new requirement for oil and gas operations off the Southern California coast to publicly report chemicals dumped directly into the ocean from offshore fracking operations. The notice, formally published today, announces the changes as part of a new permit for water pollution discharges from offshore oil and gas operations in federal waters off California. The reporting requirement will become effective March 1. Requiring oil companies...
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EPA publishes emissions rule to GOP's dismay
2014-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency published its rule limiting carbon emissions from new power plants on Wednesday to the dismay of coal advocates and the GOP. The proposed rule, published nearly four months after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced it, is a core element of President Obama's climate change agenda. Included in the new performance standards, the EPA pushes for new coal-fired power plants to be built with carbon capture technology, which Republicans argue is impossible...
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EPA to require S. Calif. offshore fracking reports
2014-01-09 09:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Oil and gas companies that are fracking off the Southern California coast must report chemicals discharged into the ocean under a new rule released Thursday by federal environmental regulators. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published the requirement in the Federal Register, and it will become effective March 1. The move comes after a series of stories by The Associated Press last year revealed at least a dozen offshore frack jobs in the Santa Barbara Channel, and more than 200 in...
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