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Will new EPA goals raise gasoline prices or clean air, save lives?
Depends on whom you ask. The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed what it called "sensible standards for cars and gasoline that will significantly reduce harmful pollution, prevent thousands of premature deaths and illnesses" while...
Tags: Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, Passenger Cars, Ford, Energy Resources
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Exports help drive record U.S. refinery production
Money & CompanyThe amount of gasoline and other fuels produced by U.S. refineries reached a new record for October, compared to the same month in previous years, according to the American Petroleum Institute's (API)monthly statistical release. But a big part of that... -
Gas and diesel prices rising again; big oil earnings expected
Money & CompanyPrices are rising again after consumers experienced only modest decreases in costs in May and June. CA_grph In California, the average price of a gallon of gasoline climbed to $3.817, up from $3.803 a week ago, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.... -
Identifying the job killers [The conversation]
Opinion L.A.It's hard to avoid the sense of defeat when there are four people for every job opening, a "green" jobs plan that's disappointed so far and the threat of a double-dip recession on the horizon. Even the fall TV lineup,...... -
Clean natural gas? Not so fast, study says
Greenspace“Relying more on natural gas would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, but it would do little to help solve the climate problem,” says Wigley, who is also an adjunct professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia. “It would be many... -
Gulf oil spill: Reaction to lifting of drilling moratorium is mixed [Updated]
GreenspaceReaction to the Obama administration's move to lift the 4-month-old moratorium on deep-water drilling was swift Tuesday. The American Petroleum Institute welcomed the move but asked for swift approval of permits: While we are pleased that the Interior... -
Gas drilling near Yellowstone: danger of another blowout?
GreenspaceLast year's Deepwater Horizon disaster focused international attention on offshore well blowouts. But they happen more often onshore, with dangerous effect: release of flammable and toxic gases, spills of oil and drilling fluid, and plumes of... -
Obama decision on polar bear status closely watched
GreenspaceA long-simmering dispute about government protection of the polar bear has drawn in leading environmental law groups and the countryâs most powerful business organizations. Both sides are concerned about the effect that a decision on the bear's status... -
Thomas J. Ahrens dies at 74; Caltech geophysicist
Thomas J. Ahrens, a Caltech geophysicist who pioneered the academic use of shock waves to study minerals under high temperatures and pressures such as those found at the center of the Earth, died Nov. 24 at his home in Pasadena. He was 74. The cause of...Tags: Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Metal and Mineral
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Why the Senate climate bill is on life support
GreenspaceMonday was to be a launch party for supporters of a congressional push to limit greenhouse gas emissions and boost domestic energy production. Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) were to roll out their...... -
Gulf oil spill: Congress moves oil legislation
GreenspaceFar-reaching legislation that would impose new environmental safeguards on offshore drilling, repeal oil industry-friendly provisions of the 2005 Energy Policy Act and hit producers with a new tax to fund conservation programs gained ground in Congress on...
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