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Obama considers sweeping climate plan
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering a sweeping initiative to address climate change, including the first-ever limits on carbon dioxide from power plants, the country's biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, according to...
Tags: Public Finance, Henry A Waxman, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Conservation
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Fracking bills flop after gusher of opposition cash, report says
Campaign contributions from the oil industry flooded into the California Legislature before it killed several bills that would have closely regulated the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to get oil and gas from the ground, a nonprofit group...Tags: Science and Technology, Politics, Valero Energy Corp., Elections, BP Plc
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Global Voices: Fukushima made ex-premier a 'no nukes' crusader
After the cascade of disasters that befell Japan 27 months ago, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan took the brunt of withering criticism for shoddy nuclear safety standards at the crippled Fukushima reactor complex and the government’s chaotic...Tags: Defense Equipment, Naoto Kan, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Shinzo Abe
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Ethereal, 8-foot-long 'sea serpent' caught on video
Scientists have released video of an 8-foot-long, shimmering oarfish taken about 200 feet below the ocean surface -- and it is breathtaking. Elusive and alien-looking, the oarfish has a thin, eel-like body with squiggly iridescent markings that glow...
Tags: Science and Technology, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Chevron CEO: Industry must address 'legitimate' 'fracking' concerns
The chief executive of oil giant Chevron Corp. says that oil and gas producers must regulate themselves more tightly over hydraulic fracturing to address "legitimate concerns" that the practice is unsafe and harmful to the environment. At an event for...
Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), The Wall Street Journal, Petroleum Industry, Chevron Corportion, John J. Watson
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Greenhouse gases nearing highly dangerous levels, study finds
WASHINGTONÂ — Emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are growing at such a rate that the world will probably exceed a safe limit in average global temperatures by the end of the century and veer into a higher temperature zone that would...
Tags: Weather Statistics, Environmental Issues, China, Global Change, Conservation
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U.S. oil and gas reserves up by a third, new report says
WASHINGTON -- Reserves of oil and gas that can be developed using current technology are 35% greater in 2013 than in 2011, according to a new report by the Energy Information Administration, the research branch of the Energy Department. The rise in...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Petroleum Industry, Natural Resources, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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San Onofre nuclear power plant to be closed permanently
Southern California Edison announced Friday it is permanently shutting down the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant, ending the region's four-decade venture into nuclear energy production. The decision caps a 16-month debate about San Onofre's future...
Tags: Southern California Edison Company, Heavy Engineering, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Power
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San Onofre shutdown will mean tight electricity supplies
SACRAMENTO — Southern California residents will have to get serious about energy conservation, particularly this summer, now that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been permanently shut down. Without that nuclear plant, which accounted...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Energy, Conservation, Japan
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Californians uneasy about fracking's safety, lack of oversight
As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll....
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L.A. Now Live: Poll shows Californians concerned about fracking
As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll....
Tags: Politics, Elections, Petroleum Industry
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San Onofre nuclear plant closure brings huge costs
Southern California Edison announced Friday that it is permanently shutting down the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant, ending the region’s four-decade venture into nuclear energy production. The closure caps a 16-month debate about San Onofre&...
Tags: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited, Manufacturing and Engineering, Job Layoffs, Shootings, Southern California Edison Company
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