"Senate Rejects Obama Call To Strip Oil Company Tax Breaks"
"A last minute entreaty by President Obama wasn’t enough to convince senators to strip the oil and gas industry of billions in tax incentives."
Source: ABC News, 03/30/2012
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"California Oil Refiners Turn to Processing Dirtier, Cheaper Crude Oil"
"California's long-running campaign to reduce air pollution has indirectly helped create a new problem: its oil refineries produce more greenhouse gas emissions than refineries anywhere else in the country."
Source: InsideClimate News, 03/29/2012
"Churches Step Up Environmental Activism"
"With a Bible in one hand and a protest sign in the other, many religious activists are now moving in lockstep with the environmental movement in the fight against oil and gas drilling."
Source: Washington Times, 03/29/2012
Interior Approves Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan
"ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Federal offshore drilling regulators on Wednesday approved Shell Oil's spill response plan for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea, drawing strong criticism from environmental groups that claim oil companies cannot clean up oil in ice-choked waters."
Source: AP, 03/29/2012
"New Wind Farm Guidelines Split Bird Conservation Community"
"The Department of the Interior [Friday] released voluntary guidelines aimed at helping wind energy project developers avoid and minimize impacts of land-based wind projects on wildlife, particularly birds."
Source: ENS, 03/28/2012
"Texas Wins Latest Round With EPA In Federal Court"
"SAN ANTONIO -- A federal appeals court scolded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday for rejecting a series of state pollution control projects in Texas that federal regulators said failed to satisfy requirements of the Clean Air Act."
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Source: Houston Chronicle, 03/28/2012
"For New Generation of Power Plants, a New Emission Rule From the EPA"
"The Obama administration’s proposed rule to control greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants -- the first ever -- could go far toward closing out the era of old-fashioned coal-burning power generation."
Source: NY Times, 03/28/2012
"Enviros Challenge Trade Secret Protections for Hydraulic Fracturing"
"Environmentalists have mounted a legal challenge against Wyoming regulators they say are improperly approving oil and gas companies’ 'overly broad,' boilerplate requests to shield information about the chemicals they use in drilling operations."
Source: FuelFix, 03/27/2012
"Indian Tribe Worries Pipeline Will Disturb Graves"
"OKLAHOMA CITY -- As President Barack Obama pushes to fast-track an oil pipeline from Oklahoma south to the Gulf Coast, an American Indian tribe that calls the oil hub home worries the route might disrupt sacred sites holding the unmarked graves of their ancestors."
Source: AP, 03/27/2012
"EPA To Impose First Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants"
"The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. The move could end the construction of conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.
Source: Wash Post, 03/27/2012
