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"Controversial Decision Awaits as Hearings on Oil Sands Pipeline Ends" [1]

"WASHINGTON — With the formal debate over on Friday, a decision on an oil pipeline that will cross America's heartland and open up a greater market for Canada's oil sands now rests with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."

Source: McClatchy [2], 10/10/2011

"Why This Prominent UK Enviro Caused a National Security Freakout" [3]

"Why did the FBI detain and question a 62-year-old British environmentalist upon his arrival at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport? The bureau won't say, and the activist, who was subsequently shipped back to London, never got a clear explanation." The answer, it seems, involves superglue.

Source: Mother Jones [4], 10/07/2011

"EPA Rolls Back Air Rule; Texas Gets Most Leeway" [5]

"HOUSTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed easing new pollution restrictions that angered several states and infuriated GOP presidential contender Texas Gov. Rick Perry."

Source: AP [6], 10/07/2011

"Greens Join Occupy Wall Street" [7]

Green climate activists have declared their solidarity with the "Occupy Wall Street" movement.

Source: Grist [8], 10/07/2011

"New Sleuths for Food Safety" [9]

"Inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration are searching fields in Colorado's Rocky Ford region for clues as to how cantaloupes grown there this summer caused at least 100 illnesses and 18 deaths. But if a new law had been in place, they might have been there before the outbreak."

Source: Wall St. Journal [10], 10/07/2011

"Explosion Rocks Regina Refinery" [11]

"REGINA -- Shaken by an explosion that some described as a massive fireball, workers huddled in groups in the fields surrounding the Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd. (CCRL) in north Regina on Thursday afternoon. Ten construction workers were injured in the explosion. Eight were taken to hospital to be treated for burns, two were treated at the site."

Source: Regina Leader-Post [12], 10/07/2011

"House Votes To Delay Controls on Toxic Pollution" [13]

"The Republican-controlled House passed the first of two bills Thursday to delay rules to cut toxic air pollution and mercury from cement plants, solid waste incinerators and industrial boilers."

Source: AP [14], 10/07/2011

"Group Opposed to Pipeline Seeks More Documents on Lobbyists" [15]

"Friends of the Earth, an environmental group, expanded its Freedom of Information Act request concerning the State Department’s evaluation of the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, which involves the construction of a new pipeline to carry crude from Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast. The environmental group’s original request had centered on communication between the State Department and Paul Elliott, the chief Washington lobbyist for TransCanada, the pipeline company."

Source: NY Times [16], 10/07/2011

"200 Chinese Subsidies Violate Rules, U.S. Says" [17]

Chinese government subsidies to the energy industry may be among nearly 200 items the U.S. is complaining about before the World Trade Organization.

Source: NY Times [18], 10/07/2011

"EPA Loses First Round in Mine Permit Crackdown Case" [19]

"A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled with the coal industry — and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection — in the first phase of a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s crackdown on mountaintop removal mining."

Source: Coal Tattoo [20], 10/07/2011

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