"ST. PETERSBURG -- Transcending their disagreements over Syrian chemical weapons, the G-20 leaders managed to reach agreement on confronting climate change in two ways. They will phase down refrigerant greenhouse gases and phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies."
"WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency this week quietly withdrew two draft rules dealing with the regulation of chemicals. The potential rules were in limbo at the Office of Management for several years."
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Independent Hospitality Receptions
"Emissions from battery recycler Exide pose a 'chronic hazard' to more than 250,000 people in surrounding areas, air district officials say. Risks include neurological changes in children."
"STOCKHOLM -- President Obama is now in St. Petersburg, Russia at the G20 economic meeting, but he woke up this morning in Stockholm, where he agreed with Nordic leaders to cooperate on international climate negotiations and clean energy. ..."
"BRUSSELS — Seeking to end years of acrimony, the European Union has made concessions to the United States to try to gain support for global rules on airline emissions."
"ENEKO ISLAND, Marshall Islands -- Pacific Island leaders today declared that 'climate change has arrived' and called for an urgent phase down of greenhouse gas emissions to save their low-lying homelands from destruction."
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Royal Dutch Shell affiliates $1.1 million for emitting too many pollutants into the air during the 2012 drilling season offshore in the Alaska Arctic."
"LONDON/PARIS -- A corrosive drilling fluid that triggered the North Sea's worst gas leak in 20 years could threaten similar deep-sea wells across the world, and operator Total has already warned Shell that its nearby Shearwater field may be at risk."
"The eight-state commission that sets water quality standards for the Ohio River wants a two-year delay on enforcement of a more stringent mercury standard while it considers relaxing those rules."
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[2] http://ens-newswire.com/2013/09/06/g-20-to-phase-out-super-greenhouse-gas-fossil-fuel-subsidies/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-quietly-withdraws-two-proposed-chemical-safety-rules
[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/epa-chemical-safety_n_3882262.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green
[5] https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2013-independent-receptions
[6] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2013-main
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/arsenic-emissions-vernon-firm-exide-pose-chronic-hazard
[8] http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-exide-20130906,0,7816791.story
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-forges-climate-consensus-nordic-countries
[10] http://ens-newswire.com/2013/09/05/obama-forges-climate-consensus-with-nordic-countries/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/europe-offers-us-deal-hoping-global-rules-airline-emissions
[12] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/business/global/europe-offers-compromise-to-us-on-airline-emissions.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/survival-bid-island-states-list-steps-reduce-greenhouse-gases
[14] http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1059986742
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-fines-shell-11-million-pollution-violations-alaska-arctic
[16] http://www.adn.com/2013/09/05/3060253/epa-fines-shell-more-than-1-million.html
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oil-gas-industry-fears-more-deep-sea-leaks-linked-drill-fluid
[18] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/05/us-total-elgin-idUSBRE9840PU20130905
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ohio-river-commission-may-relax-mercury-pollution-rules
[20] http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130905/BUSINESS/309050032/Ohio-River-commission-may-relax-mercury-pollution-rules?nclick_check=1
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[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3559
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3560
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3561
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3564
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3565
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3566
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3567
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4963