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State Dept. Overseers of Contentious Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline...

2014-08-28 11:06:23| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

The Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation and other green groups recently revealed that pipeline giant Enbridge got U.S. State Department permission in response to its request to construct a U.S.-Canada border-crossing tar sands pipeline without earning an obligatory Presidential Permit .

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The history of contentious number behind zero deforestation commitments for palm oil

2014-07-15 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: It was just after lunch, Monday, November 8th 2010 when it all began. At the time, it was innocent enough; there were certainly no ill intentions. Yet, looking back, I now see it as the moment that kicked off the polarizing debate that today splits the palm oil industry and that drowns out much needed sensible discussion around how forest protection and palm oil expansion might go hand in hand. The debate, with all its spin and tension, has become the focus rather than that more important, bigger...

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2014: Export of American Oil Is Contentious Industry Goal After 4-Decade Federal Ban

2014-01-06 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: Emboldened by the recent boom in U.S. crude production, oil company executives and others closed the year by launching a highly public push for the right to freely export U.S. crude oil. The move is a 180-degree change from 40 years of telling Americans that the country needs all the oil it can get to achieve energy independence and to protect consumers and the economy from oil and gasoline price shocks. It's a particularly dicey appeal to make right now because the call for oil exportsand the...

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Warsaw climate talks remain contentious, may end in all-nighter

2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: Bedraggled diplomats returned this morning to the soccer stadium where U.N. climate change negotiations are being held. They are fully expecting to battle into the night over the best path toward a new 2015 global warming agreement. With a quiet and somewhat sour mood descending over the discussions after a walkout by environmental activists yesterday decrying lack of progress, several issues remain unresolved. Among them: funding levels for vulnerable countries between now and 2020 and a way...

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