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• Reducing CO2: ‘Cap and Trade’ or ‘Fee and Dividend’?

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Earlier this month (Dec. 7, 2009), two Op-Ed columns appeared in the New York Times–one, by Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, supporting ‘cap and trade’ strategies for reducing carbon emissions, and the other, authored by NASA’s James Hansen (head of the Goddard Space Flight Center) advocating a new ...
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• Reducing CO2: ‘Cap and Trade’ or ‘Fee and Dividend’?

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 517
  Earlier this month (Dec. 7, 2009), two Op-Ed columns appeared in the New York Times–one, by Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, supporting ‘cap and trade’ strategies for reducing carbon emissions, and the other, authored by NASA’s James Hansen (head of the Goddard Space Flight Center) advocating a new ...
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• Cattlemen challenge EPA greenhouse gas ruling in court

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WASHINGTON — The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association filed a petition Dec. 23 in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent greenhouse gas (GHG) “endangerment finding” rule. The endangerment finding does not in and of itself regulate greenhouse gases, but it is a ...
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• Commentary: Ron Stafford, Adirondack Conservationist

  
  Adirondack Almanack — Authority: 437
  Two weeks before Ron Stafford died on June 24, 2005, the North Country’s longtime state Senator was honored by the Adirondack Council on its 30th anniversary.I thought of Stafford when Adirondack Almanack editor John Warren decided to solicit nominations for a list of influential Adirondack leaders.While some might ...
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• Comment period on Proposed Rule:

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Fact Sheet -- Proposed Rule: Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule ACTION * On September 30, 2009, EPA announced a proposal that is focused on large facilities emitting over 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year. These facilities would be required to obtain permits that ...
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• Fact Sheet — Proposed Rule: Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas…

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Fact Sheet -- Proposed Rule: Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule ACTION * On September 30, 2009, EPA announced a proposal that is focused on large facilities emitting over 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year. These facilities would be required to obtain permits that ...
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• EPA Gets Serious About Pollution from Large Ships

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 127
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has raised the standard for large U.S.- flagged ships with harmful marine diesel emissions.  The new regulation will bring the U.S. into accord with international standards and result in susbtantial air-quality improvements for the nation. “There are enormous health and ...
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• Duke Energy Resolves Clean Air Act Violations

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 508
  The US EPA and Duke Energy have reached a settlement in another New Source Review enforcement action. Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the nation, will spend approximately $85 million to significantly reduce harmful air pollution at an Indiana power plant and pay a $1.75 million civil ...
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• EPA Reins in Air Pollution for Large Ships

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  Aimed at significantly cutting marine diesel emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a rule setting strict engine and fuel standards for large U.S.-flagged ships. The regulation also harmonizes with international standards, according to the EPA.Domestic and international standards are ...
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• Duke to pay $93M for Clean Air Violations

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  Duke Energy has reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to spend $93 million to settle Clean Air Act violations at its coal-fired power plant in Indiana, according to the EPA.This is just the latest major EPA settlement recently. Earlier this month, American Smelting and Refining ...
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• One of the U.S.’s Largest Power Companies to Spend $93 Million to Resolve Clean Air Act Violations

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 432
   Emissions to be slashed by more than 35,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides annually  WASHINGTON – Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the nation, will spend approximately $85 million to significantly reduce harmful air pollution at an Indiana power plant and pay a $1.75 ...
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• December 21, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 114
  December 21, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber. For the next two weeks, I have added a special section on the Copenhagen Climate Talks.  If ...
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  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 126
  EarthJustice.org18 December 2009, 4:36 PMTrip Van NoppenSabotage in Senate Over Climate ChangeSenators try to stop EPA from reducing global warming pollutionSen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Photo by AFP.RELATED ACTION ALERTSStop Soot: A Global Warming Story You Haven’t HeardHelp Stop Attack On Climate ProgressToday, as ...
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• Sabotage in Senate Over Climate Change

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 503
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Photo by AFP. Today, as world leaders, led by President Obama, struggled deep into the night on a plan to fight climate change, a handful of U.S. senators at home were trying to sabotage U.S. climate action. In league with long-time climate science deniers in Congress, ...
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• Unearthed This Week

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 503
  Some top stories from the last week at Earthjustice... On this final day of the Copenhagen conference, our daily report and attending attorneys Martin Wagner and Erika Rosenthal will keep you apprised of the latest. Check for updates during the day at unEarthed. The EPAs endangerment finding (now under assault by ...
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• GOP Senator Rearms to Stop Global Warming Solutions

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 503
  Photo by AP For the second time in 3 months, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is trying to block solutions to global warming . In September, she attempted to tack an amendment onto an appropriations bill that would have kept the Environmental Protection Agency from spending any money on reducing global ...
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• Onoff pleads guilty to asbestos removal scam

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 135
  Frank Onoff was an asbestos removal supervisor for Paragon Environmental Construction, Inc. when he engaged in an illegal asbestos removal scheme that spanned a decade and left asbestos behind in a number of homes and buildings, primarily in the area of Syracuse, New York. Onoff pleaded guilty in federal court to ...
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• Todays Report From Copenhagen

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 503
  (Editors Note: This file presents news and information from the Copenhagen climate change conference on Dec. 17, distilled from news outlet reports. Check for updates during the day.) : Money appears to be thawing the stalled climate change negotiations. China, in response to Hillary Clintons promise (see ...
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• Coal-fired Congress Blocks Path to Clean Energy

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 503
  A coal-fired power plant. Becoming a grandfather is cause for celebration, unless youre a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants that predate the Clean Air Act have become the mules of air pollution—set in their ways and not liable to change. Exploiting their "grandfathered" status, these coal ...
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• Surprise! CEI Plans to Sue the EPA over the Endangerment Finding

  
  Warming Law — Authority: 483
  Predictably, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has announced its intention to sue the EPA in federal court, seeking  to overturn the agency’s recent endangerment finding for CO 2 “on the grounds that EPA has ignored major scientific issues, including those raised recently in the Climategate fraud ...
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