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PA Supreme Court Finds Parts Act 13 Unconstitutional, Allows Municipalities to Limit Fracking
2013-12-20 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an opinion yesterday in the closely-watched case of Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, No. 63 MAP 2012. The case was a challenge filed by several Pennsylvania municipalities against the state legislatures adoption of Act 13. Act 13 sought to eliminate zoning authority from municipalities over oil and gas extraction. Act 13 was passed in 2012 to remove any local barriers to the expansion of drilling and fracking across the state. Provisions...
Chicago Moves to Limit Petcoke Storage
2013-12-20 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: DAVID GREENE, HOST: Crude oil from Canada's tar sands is providing a booming business for American refineries, but residents of one Chicago neighborhood complain that a byproduct of that business has become a health hazard. They want towering mounds of a dusty substance known as petroleum coke, or petcoke, moved out of the city. And as NPR's Cheryl Corley reports, Chicago is now requiring one company storing the substance to do just that. CHERYL CORLEY, BYLINE: Residents on Chicago's far southeast...
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Apple supplier Foxconn still struggles to limit working hours, labor group says
2013-12-13 20:01:29| InfoWorld: Top News
Foxconn Technology Group has come up short in trying to limit the overtime hours of its workers in China but still made progress in improving the working conditions at three of its factories that make products for Apple, a labor group said Thursday.
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Governments fail to agree EU limit on food-based biofuels
2013-12-12 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: EU energy ministers on Thursday failed to agree on a compromise deal to limit the use of transport fuels made from food crops, which critics say pushes up food prices and can do more harm than good to the environment. The European Union's Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said the delay would damage its efforts to reduce dependence on gas and oil imported from such sources as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and would hurt its drive to curb greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Governments fail to agree EU limit on food-based biofuels
2013-12-12 04:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: EU energy ministers on Thursday failed to agree on a compromise deal to limit the use of transport fuels made from food crops, which critics say pushes up food prices and can do more harm than good to the environment. EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said the delay would only damage the European Union in its efforts to reduce dependence on imported oil and gas and curb greenhouse gas emissions. "If we delay and postpone, the winners will be OPEC and Russia," he said. Last year in...
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