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Trump, Cruz vow to undo Obama environmental work
Posted by Hill: None Given on March 31st, 2016
Hill: In responding to a survey from the American Energy Alliance, both candidates said they would undo major Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency rules on clean water and power plant carbon emissions, with Trump saying, “under my administration, all EPA rules will be reviewed.”
Both candidates said they oppose a carbon tax, a policy Obama has praised but not pushed while president.
“The observed temperature evidence does not support the claims that carbon dioxide is dangerous,” Cruz wrote in...
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Obama rolls out climate change challenge
Posted by Hill: None Given on June 14th, 2014
Hill: President Obama laid out a billion-dollar climate change challenge on Saturday, urging the nation to help combat the effects of natural disasters. “Can you imagine a more worthy goal, a more worthy legacy, than protecting the world we leave to our children,” the president said as he delivered the commencement address at the University of California, Irvine. "U.S. action is critical on climate change, as the world is watching and will follow the U.S.’s lead, he said. “This is a fight America must...
TransCanada CEO Girling: U.S. President Obama Will Approve Keystone Project
Posted by Hill: None Given on December 23rd, 2013
Hill: TransCanada CEO Russ Girling said he is "very confident" the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would be approved by President Obama.
Girling said he expects the final environmental review of the pipeline, which would carry crude from oil sands in Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries, to be released by the State Department in the coming weeks.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Girling said that he "remain[s] very confident" Obama will approve the pipeline.
"I remain 100 percent confident that this...
Obama Former Climate Czar Predicts President Will Reject Keystone XL
Posted by Hill: None Given on October 25th, 2013
Hill: Former White House energy and climate czar Carol Browner on Thursday predicted President Obama will say no to building the controversial Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
"Whether or not he will say no -- well, you know how the White House functions," Browner said at the liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) anniversary meeting in Washington. "At the end of the day he is going to say no but there will be some more twists and turns before we get there."
Browner is now a senior...
TransCanada Rejects Steyer’s Keystone XL Debate Challenge
Posted by Hill: None Given on August 14th, 2013
Hill: A public debate between Keystone XL pipeline foe Tom Steyer and the CEO of pipeline developer TransCanada Corp. isn't in the cards.
Steyer, a billionaire former hedge fund chief, wrote an open letter Tuesday to CEO Russ Girling that alleges Keystone would cause “irrevocable” environmental harm and requests a debate at an oil sands mining site.
But TransCanada Corp., in a statement, said Steyer has other avenues to express his views and noted TransCanada has “respect” for the State Department...