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Obama Budget Reduces Spending for Environmental Protection Agency
Posted by Dow Jones: None Given on April 10th, 2013
Dow Jones: The Obama administration's 2014 budget proposal for the Environmental Protection Agency totals $8.2 billion, or about 3.5% below the 2012 enacted level and almost 5% less than provided for under the 2013 continuing resolution. Most programs receive roughly similar funding levels as the last two years. The administration proposes cutting funds for grants to state-level environmental programs by about $465 million, or about 13%, compared with 2012 levels. The administration often proposes cuts in...
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Some Residents Allowed To Return Following Mayflower Oil Spill
Posted by Dow Jones: None Given on April 9th, 2013
Dow Jones: Residents of four homes evacuated following an oil spill in Mayflower, Ark., are being allowed to return as work to clean up the oil progresses, Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) said Monday.
Twenty-two homes were evacuated after Exxon's Pegasus pipeline ruptured and leaked thousands of barrels of oil into a neighborhood March 29. Exxon said 5,000 barrels were spilled.
Exxon said residents of the remaining 18 homes will be given the option to return as their properties are cleaned. The company has received...
Brazil’s Petrobras Plans Pipeline To Open Isolated Amazon Gas Field
Posted by Dow Jones: None Given on October 18th, 2011
Dow Jones: A natural gas field discovered more than 30 years ago deep in Brazil's Amazon rain forest could finally be linked to the outside world, according to plans detailed by federal oil company Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR).
Petrobras, as the energy giant is also known, has won regulatory approval for a 140 kilometer pipeline from the Jurua natural gas discovery in Amazonas state to the Urucu oil-and-gas field, said Urucu general manager Luiz Ferradans during a site visit Monday.
Senior management...