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State of Alaska Seeks to Block Fuel Standard Enforcement
Channel 2 NewsThe state of Alaska is asking a federal judge to block enforcement of rules intended to limit pollution from large ships. The request for a preliminary injunction was filed Friday. Alaska is suing the federal government over the new fuel...Tags: Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Trials, Justice System
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O'Malley lobbies EPA to ease cruise ship pollution rule
Gov. Martin O'Malley has interceded with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Carnival Cruise Lines after the company threatened to pull its business from Baltimore over a pending air-quality regulation that would require large, ocean-...
Tags: Executive Branch, Festive Events, Cruise Ship Jobs, Diesel Fuel, Environmental Issues
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States dependent on Colorado River consider conservation effort
SAN DIEGO — Officials in the seven states that depend on the drought-beset Colorado River expressed a cautious willingness Tuesday to join the federal government in a complex, possibly contentious effort to step up conservation. At a meeting in...
Tags: Energy Saving, Water Supply, Environmental Issues, Conservation
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Bipartisan Senate bill would give EPA power to ban dangerous chemicals
In a rare display of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, a group of key senators unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require chemical companies to provide more health and safety information about their products and give regulators more power to force...Tags: Elections, Politics, Environmental Issues, David Vitter, Crime, Law and Justice
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EPA probes flame retardants but lacks power to ban
As the Obama administration launches a broad investigation of flame retardants used in furniture and other household goods, the nation's top environmental regulators are running into the limitations of a federal law that makes it practically impossible to...
Tags: Judges, Environmental Issues, Gina McCarthy, Environmental Pollution, Dick Durbin
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States, cities, environmental groups demand EPA emission rules
WASHINGTON -- A dozen states and cities and three major environmental groups have notified the Environmental Protection Agency that they plan to sue the regulator unless it issues final rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. On...
Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Issues, Standards, Global Warming
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Lawmaker proposes office to investigate possible gas-price fixing
Think you are being ripped off at the gas pump? One California lawmaker wants to give the public a place to contact with complaints of price manipulation or other shenanigans. Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has proposed creation of an Office of Fuel...Tags: Consumers, Petroleum Industry
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New center to set stringent standards for fracking in East
WASHINGTON -- A coalition of energy companies, environmentalists and Pennsylvania-based philanthropies announced Wednesday the creation of a center that would provide more stringent standards for fracking and natural gas development in the Eastern...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Energy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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Energy industry develops nontoxic fracking fluids
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The oil and gas industry is trying to ease environmental concerns by developing nontoxic fluids for the drilling process known as fracking, but it's not clear whether the new product will be widely embraced by drilling companies....
Tags: Energy Resources, Halliburton Company, Environmental Pollution, Petroleum Industry, The Pennsylvania State University
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Toxic flame retardant may get a reprieve
For a class of troublesome flame retardants, this appeared to be the end of an era. After years of study, scientists in the U.S. and Europe had reached an alarming conclusion: Flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, build up...
Tags: Lisa P. Jackson, U.S. Department of Defense, Industrial Production, Albemarle Corporation, Environmental Issues
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After years of research, hog-waste disposal still reeks
YADKINVILLE, N.C. - Google, of all companies, last year got into the business of hog poop. It joined a project started by Duke University, Duke Energy and a Yadkin County farmer to pull the potent greenhouse gas methane from swine waste and use it to...Tags: Smithfield, Google Inc., Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, Duke Energy Corporation
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Drought demands putting stress on Ogallala Aquifer
It would be an insidious route to the end of the world, one that doesn't make quite the exciting movie plot as asteroids and super tornadoes but that could be far more of an effective apocalypse: Water overuse. There are nearly 7 billion people on the...Tags: Natural Resources, Entertainment, China, Environmental Issues, India
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