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Public Comment Period Ending on Controversial Keystone Report
Posted by InsideClimate: John H. Cushman Jr. on April 22nd, 2013
InsideClimate: Advocates and opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are due to file detailed comments on its environmental impacts on Monday, after the State Department refused to extend the comment period, which environmental groups had complained was too short.
As many as a million members of the public are expected to meet the comment deadline, which by happenstance fell on Earth Day, April 22. Comments are also expected from industry, labor and environmental groups on both sides of the debate over the proposed...
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This Building Is Supergreen. Will It Be Copied?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 22nd, 2013
National Public Radio: One of the world's greenest office buildings formally open its doors Monday - Earth Day. It's a project of the environmentally progressive Bullitt Foundation. Its ambition is bold: to showcase an entirely self-sustaining office building hoping that others will create similar projects.
The first thing that strikes you about the new Bullitt Center is the windows. Walking up to the building in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, six stories of floor-to-ceiling glass soars above you.
And there's...
Analysis: BP’s legal gamble may trim spill bill by billions
Posted by Reuters: Kathy Finn and Braden Reddall on April 22nd, 2013
Reuters: BP Plc's attempt to get a U.S. federal court to pin at least a sizeable amount of the blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster on other companies may have saved it billions of dollars.
After failing to settle claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill through negotiations, the British oil company opted in February to go to trial with plaintiffs ranging from small businesses to the U.S. government over the damages it will face.
The decision rests with U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier, who...
GOP Head of House Committee Tours Mayflower Oil Spill
Posted by InsideClimate: Drew Petrimoulx on April 22nd, 2013
InsideClimate: The head of a powerful congressional committee visited Mayflower Sunday to get a look at the community where a pipeline burst March 29th spilling thousands of barrels of crude oil. As head of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Congressman Bill Shuster (R-Hollidaysburg) oversees the nation's pipeline system that includes the 20-inch Pegasus line that that flows through Central Arkansas. "We'll figure out what happened and make sure they make corrections so it doesn't happen again,"...
Fracking ‘unlikely to give UK cheap gas’, report says
Posted by Independent: Tom Bawden on April 22nd, 2013
Independent: George Osborne's plan to deliver cheap energy by fostering a fracking revolution has been dealt a severe blow after an influential cross-party group of experts said any boom in shale gas production would be "unlikely to give the UK cheap gas". A nine-month inquiry chaired by former energy minister Charles Hendry, concludes that it is far too early to estimate the volume of shale gas contained in UK rocks and harder still to know how much of that it will be commercially viable to extract. Further...