The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announc…
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Environmentalists cheered the surprise announcement today that the U.S. State Department will re-evaluate the route of the proposed controversial Keystone XL pipeline project, and praised President Obama for ordering the reconsideration.
“The president didn’t outright reject the pipeline permit…But a few minutes ago the president sent the pipeline back to the State Department for a thorough re-review, which most analysts are saying will effectively kill the project. The president explicitly noted climate change, along with the pipeline route, as one of the factors that a new review would need to assess,” wrote environmental activist Bill McKibben on the TarSandsAction.org blog.
Tags: · Bill McKibben, Canadian pipeline, Frances Beinecke, Keystone Pipeline XL, Keystone to be reviewed, Michael Brune, pipeline review, President Obama and Keystone, State Department, tar sands oil, White House
The heartbreaking photos and video, many released yesterday when it was discovered that a famous rookery on Grand Isle had been inundated with oil, leave no doubt that this latest human accident will suffocate life wherever it lands and beyond. It will asphyxiate birds with a coating of oil, and orphan offspring left behind in the nests.
Tags: · birds, BP oil spill, dophins, gulf oil disaster, Michael Brune, oil disaster, oiled pelicans, Queen Bess rookery, rehabilitation of birds, sea turtles, Sierra Club
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