Monday, January 30, 2012

California Advanced Clean Cars Program

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Last Friday, after three years in the making, the California Air Resources Board unanimously approved automobile standards known as the Cali...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Obama Commission on America's Nuclear Future Final Report

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Norris McDonald Testifying at BRC Hearing in Washington, DC President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future ...

Coal Export

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The Powder River Basin currently represents approximately 50% of the US’s total coal production and the reserves are massive. The key to acc...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Center Supports President Obama's 'Clean Energy Standard'

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald President Obama covers all bases when it comes to energy policy.  He is pro coal and pro nucle...

Ener1 Car Battery Company Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

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Ener1, an electric car battery company that the Obama administration awarded a $118 million stimulus grant to expand its operations, filed ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

USA Energy Outlook: Fossil Fuels & More CO2

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According to the “ Annual Energy Outlook 2012 ” from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2010, fossil fuel represented 83 p...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

ConocoPhillips Fined By Chinese Government For Oil Spill

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Houston-based ConocoPhillips and China National Offshore Oil Corporation have agreed to pay 1 billion Chinese yuan, or around $159 million, ...

House Bill Seeks To Resurrect Keystone XL Pipeline

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Lee Terry The legislation, which Representative Lee Terry (R-Neb.) has introduced legislation in the House that, “imposes narrow time con...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

President Obama State of the Union - Energy

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THE WHITE HOUSE Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union Address “An America Built to Last” Tues...

CORPORATIZATION OF NATIONAL PARKS

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Summit Promoting a Billion Dollar Private Endowment for Parks As the National Park System prepares for its centennial in 2016 it is turni...

New Pennsylvania Law Identifies Fracking Wells & Pipelines

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Tom Corbett Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett will sign legislation passed by the Pennsylvania State Legislature that will help emergency...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Maryland Governor O'Malley's Complicated Wind Power Subsidy

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Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has a new plan to promote offshore wind electricity generation that seeks to guarantee that a subsidy wou...

Oil Prices Rising As Natural Gas Prices Are Falling

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Light, sweet crude oil for March delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange settled 1.3%, or $1.25 higher, at $99.58 a barrel. ICE North ...

President Obama Wants To Move NOAA To Dept of the Interior

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is being targeted by the Obama administration to be moved from the Department of ...

"As California Drives, So Drives The Nation"

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William K. Reilly By William K. Reilly Op Ed: San Francisco Chronicle , 1/23/2012) These days, people seem surprised when government w...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Costa Concordia Poses Pollution Threat To Italian Waters

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Costa Concordia Italy declared a state of emergency in the area around the shipwrecked Costa Concordia on Friday. Officials from Dutch m...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Oppose SOPA and PIPA

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The Center opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) because, although the intent of the bills now in Congress...

Center Seeks Ownership of Nuclear Power Plant

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald The Center was the first environmental organization in the United States to support nuclear po...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

President Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline

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The State Department rejected the Keystone XL pipeline today, rejecting the imposition of an “arbitrary” 60-day deadline imposed by Congress...

54.5 mpg Fuel Economy Standard Hearings

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A panel of federal officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration held a public hear...

Seth Oster Goes to KPMG

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Seth Oster , EPA's Director of External Affairs, left EPA in December to take a top communications job at KPMG LLP, one of the world’s l...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

President Obama Touts Fracking Jobs?

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" Investing In America: Building An Economy That Lasts " Last week the White House issued its latest report on jobs and it inclu...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

New York Assembly Hearing on Indian Point Energy Center

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Norris McDonald Statement The New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Energy and Standing Committee on Corporations, Authorities and...

Obama Asks Congress To Consolidate Federal Agencies

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President Obama has asked Congress for the authority to consolidate the roles of several federal agencies, which he said would lead to stre...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

President Obama Visits EPA

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President Obama joined EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for an employee town hall to praise the agency's  work on protecting the environme...

Court of Appeals Dismisses Fly-Ash Petition

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The Court of Appeals has changed its mind about getting involved in a dispute over a fly-ash storage facility in southern Maryland.  The top...
Monday, January 09, 2012

U.S. Refineries & Blenders Produced Record Amounts of Distillate Fuels

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U.S. refiners produced historically high volumes of distillate fuels (a category that includes both diesel fuel and heating oil) and motor ...

Triad Mining Fined By EPA Agrees To Restore Waterways

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Triad Mining Resolves Clean Water Act Violations To Restore Affected Waterways in Indiana The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a...