"Visualizing Life After Coal in Salem, Mass."
"When coal plants close, communities face painful transitions. Debate over one Massachusetts plant shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power."
Source: EHN/Daily Climate, 05/29/2014
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"U.S. Solar Power Rises 79% as Home Panels Beat Warehouses"
"Homeowners and developers installed 1.33 gigawatts of solar panels in the first quarter, the second-largest total on record, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/29/2014
"Report: Power Plants Reducing Emissions"
"The country’s top 100 electricity producers have reduced emissions of major pollutants in recent years, showing that they could likely handle the new limits on carbon dioxide coming soon from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to a new report."
Source: The Hill, 05/29/2014
Reporters Curious About Tar Sands Not Very Welcome in Canada
Reporter Emily Atkin of the Climate Progress blog told recently of flying into Fort McMurray, Alberta to see the tar sands and being hassled for some 45 minutes by "security" officials because she was a journalist — including being told "We might have to send you back to the States."
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Will EPA Go Further in Pushing Fracking Fluid Disclosure?
The agency is exploring some of its legal options for improving transparency about fracking fluid. One sign that EPA might be thinking of using its existing Clean Water Act legal authority came when the publication DeSmogBlog published on May 28 a leaked EPA draft suggesting it was considering doing precisely that.
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You Can Hide Oil Trains From the Public, But Not From Terrorists
As 100-car trains of explosive crude oil snake through U.S. cities and river gorges, the railroad industry continues to tell the public they are being kept secret from terrorists. But now a series of articles by Rob Davis for the The (Portland) Oregonian seems to have caught the railroads and the feds in their own contradictions.
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"New Safety Requirements Set For Keystone XL Pipeline"
"Safety regulators have quietly placed two extra conditions on construction of TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline after learning of potentially dangerous construction defects involving the southern leg of the Canada-to-Texas project."
Source: AP, 05/28/2014
"Interior Takes Step Toward Resuming Arctic Exploration"
"Royal Dutch Shell may be able to resume Arctic oil and gas exploration if the Interior Department sticks to the timeline it filed to the U.S. District Court of Alaska."
Source: The Hill, 05/28/2014
"After Decades, Dirty Power Plant To Get Clean"
"HOMER CITY, Pa. -- Three years ago, the operators of one of the nation's dirtiest coal-fired power plants warned of "immediate and devastating" consequences from the Obama administration's push to clean up pollution from coal."
Source: AP, 05/28/2014
"ExxonMobil, BP Extend Partnerships With Russia Despite Sanctions"
"Oil companies ExxonMobil and BP defy the United States by collaborating with Russia in the energy sector. ExxonMobil and BP have separately signed agreements with Rosneft, Russia's state-owned oil company."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 05/28/2014
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