After 3 Decades, EPA Tightens Toxic Air Standard for Oil Refineries [1]
"Lawsuit helped force an update of emissions standards for dangerous chemicals that went unchanged nearly 30 years."
Source: InsideClimate News [2], 04/23/2015
"Lawsuit helped force an update of emissions standards for dangerous chemicals that went unchanged nearly 30 years."
"ExxonMobil Corp. agreed to pay more than $5 million, including a federal fine, as part of a settlement for the 2013 rupture of a pipeline in Arkansas that was carrying oil sands from Canada."
"After a series of deadly accidents, Congress created an office to oversee the nation’s oil and gas pipelines. A decade later, it’s become the can’t-do agency."
"President Obama used the backdrop of the Florida Everglades this Earth Day to highlight the dangers posed by a changing climate. He also took a swipe at Florida's Republican governor, who's been accused of discouraging state workers from discussing global warming."
"John Kerry is heading north. On Friday, the U.S. Secretary of State will travel to the Canadian Arctic city of Iqualuit, Nunavut, where he will take temporary reins of the Arctic Council, a forum that could ultimately determine the fate of the Arctic."
"The U.S. electric grid will require major changes to reposition itself for the future challenges of climate change, new technologies, and national security in coming decades, according to a first-ever “Quadrennial Energy Review” released by the Obama administration.
"New study shows that job gains, not the losses the industry predicted, would follow if new carbon rules are implemented."
"If the circus is coming to town, that town won’t be San Francisco under a new regulation that would ban all performances by wild and exotic animals in the city."
"A Japanese court has rejected a legal bid to block the reopening of the Sendai nuclear power station on safety grounds, removing one of the last big hurdles to switching reactors back on after the 2011 Fukushima crisis paralyzed the industry."
"A company pivotal to Canada's most ambitious oil pipeline project has a mixed environmental record of spills and regulatory warnings, according to government documents reviewed by Reuters, a finding likely to bolster activist opposition to the proposal."
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[2] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/22042015/after-inaction-epa-tightens-toxic-emissions-standard-oil-refineries
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/exxon-agrees-pay-us-fine-settling-2013-oil-sands-spill
[4] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-22/exxon-agrees-to-pay-u-s-fine-in-settling-2013-oil-sands-spill
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/politico-investigation-pipelines-blow-and-people-die
[6] http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/the-little-pipeline-agency-that-couldnt-117147.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/visiting-everglades-obama-takes-swipe-climate-change-deniers
[8] http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/04/22/401576009/visiting-the-everglades-obama-takes-swipe-at-climate-change-deniers
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/john-kerry%E2%80%99s-mission-save-arctic
[10] http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/21/3648934/kerry-arctic-council/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-energy-infrastructure-will-need-major-changes-says-obama-report
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[14] http://insideclimatenews.org/carbon-copy/21042015/epa-clean-power-plan-will-create-quarter-million-jobs
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sf-board-votes-ban-wild-exotic-animal-performances-city
[16] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-Supervisors-vote-to-ban-animal-performances-in-6200216.php
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/japan-court-approves-restart-reactors-boosts-abes-nuclear-policy
[18] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/22/us-japan-nuclear-courts-idUSKBN0NC1QD20150422
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/gatekeeper-energy-east-pipeline-has-mixed-environmental-record
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