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Senate Defeats Keystone XL Pipeline Bill By One Vote
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on November 19th, 2014
Environment News Service: A measure to force approval of the Keystone tar sands pipeline was defeated in the U.S. Senate today by a vote of 59-41. Sixty votes were needed for passage of the bill.
All the Republican Senators and 11 Democrats voted for the bill. A similar measure sailed through the Republican-controlled House of Representatives last week.
When the new Congress convenes in January, with Republicans in control of both houses, the issue is certain to again be put up for a vote.
The bill, S. 2280, was...
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Could Obama cut deal on Keystone pipeline? Don’t rule it out
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 19th, 2014
Reuters: President Barack Obama might be open to using the Keystone pipeline as leverage with Republicans if they cooperate on other aspects of his long-stalled domestic agenda, such as investing in infrastructure, closing tax loopholes or reducing carbon emissions.
After years of fighting over TransCanada's crude oil pipeline from Canada, a Keystone deal is not entirely out of the question, sources inside the administration and others close to the White House told Reuters on Tuesday.
With the Senate's...
Kentucky Coal Company Falsified Water Pollution Reports, Environmental Group Alleges
Posted by ThinkProgress: None Given on November 19th, 2014
ThinkProgress: A major Kentucky coal company falsified its pollution reports in the first quarter of 2014, according to multiple environmental groups that filed an intent to sue notice against the company this week.
Appalachian Voices, Kentucky Riverkeeper, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, and the Waterkeeper Alliance sent a notice of intent to sue to Frasure Creek Mining Monday, alleging that the company failed to report water pollution to Kentucky regulators in late summer and early fall of 2014, instead...
Fracking to be permitted in GW National Forest
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 19th, 2014
Associated Press: Environmentalists and energy boosters alike welcomed a federal compromise announced Tuesday that will allow fracking in the largest national forest in the eastern United States, but make most of its woods off-limits to drilling. The decision was highly anticipated because about half of the George Washington National Forest sits atop the Marcellus shale formation, a vast underground deposit of natural gas that runs from upstate New York to West Virginia and yields more than $10 billion in gas a year....
Wisconsin Groundwater Contaminated by Coal Ash, Says Study
Posted by Midwest Energy News: None Given on November 19th, 2014
Midwest Energy News: The "beneficial reuse" of coal ash, often touted as a way to keep the material out of landfills, is potentially causing serious contamination of drinking water in southeast Wisconsin and possibly across the state, according to a report released Tuesday by Clean Wisconsin.
By classifying coal ash as an “industrial byproduct,” as report author Tyson Cook says, companies are able to place contaminant-laden coal ash in the ground - as structural fill in and below roads, trails, parking lots, buildings,...