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US Coal Mining States Sue Environmental Protection Agency

08.08.2014 - Twelve US coal mining states, including West Virginia, Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, have...

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EPA Chief Grilled by Senators Over Carbon Rule

25.07.2014 - US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy has told Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that the agency's plan to require mandatory cuts in carbon...

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EPA Proposes to Replace and Reduce Greenhouse Gases

11.07.2014 - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to prohibit the use of certain chemicals that it said "significantly contribute to climate change," where safer, more...

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Sierra Club Sues U.S. Army Over Keystone Pipeline

13.02.2014 - U.S. conservation group Sierra Club has filed suit against the U.S. Army Corps in a San Francisco, California, federal court. It charges that the Corps has wrongly withheld records...

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Wyoming Indian Tribe Can Administer Clean Air Act

24.12.2013 - The governor of the U.S. state of Wyoming, Matt Mead, has said he will not recognize the Environmental Protection Agency's determination that more than a million acres of state...

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Carbon Black Producer Cabot Fined Nearly $1 million by EPA

26.11.2013 - Cabot Corporation, the second largest carbon black manufacturer in the U.S., has been fined $975,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ordered to invest some $84...

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U.S. Justices to Hear Challenge To Obama On Climate Change

16.10.2013 - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a challenge to part of the Obama administration's first wave of regulations aimed at tackling climate change, accepting its biggest...

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US Government Mandate or No, Fuel Ethanol Is Here to Stay

24.08.2012 - For the past five years, the U.S. government has paid fuel companies billions of dollars in subsidies to buy home-grown, corn-based ethanol, making it a viable part of the nation's...