G7 goals: Decarbonize the global economy When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to “decarbonize” the global economy, they’re talking about a shift so dramatic that one analyst described it as a new Apollo mission. Like putting a man on the moon, it would require overcoming major hurdles related to technology and […]
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Corrosion likely caused California oil spill A Texas company whose ruptured pipeline created the largest coastal oil spill in California in 25 years had assured the government that a break in the line while possible was “extremely unlikely” and state-of-the-art monitoring could quickly detect possible leaks and alert operators, documents show. Nearly 1,200 pages of records, filed
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G7 leaders commit to decarbonizing the global economy during this century German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed that the world should phase out the use of fossil fuels by the end of this century. Merkel said today that the G-7 leaders committed themselves to the need to “decarbonize
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G7 agrees to no-carbon economy by 2100 Canada’s energy sector will have to transform itself to lower greenhouse gas emissions in the long term, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday. He was commenting at the end of the G7 leaders’ summit which called on its members to put their energy sectors on a low-carbon footing by
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Handful of people face charges following Gulf oil spill A federal jury found a former BP executive not guilty Friday of making false statements to investigators in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Prosecutors said David Rainey, in the early days of the spill, had manipulated calculations to match a far-too-low government estimate
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Electric cars are nothing but taxpayer subsidized toys for the rich and famous By Kenneth P. Green for Troy Media Twenty years ago, in May, 1995, I had my first op-ed published in a major newspaper, the Los Angeles Times. The title was Pull the Plug on the Electric Car Mandate. In that column I
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Current prices below most OPEC members’ break-even point Defying OPEC attempts to project unity, Iran and Saudi Arabia went into a meeting of the 12-nation cartel Friday declaring that they would not cede authority to the organization over how much oil they could sell. Though oil ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries were expected to keep
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Gulf oil spill – former BP executive accused of lying to FBI, EPA investigators Jury deliberations began early Friday in the case against a former BP executive accused of lying to federal investigators about the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. If convicted of making false statements to federal agents, David Rainey faces a possible prison sentence
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Over 100,000 gallons of oil spilled in California oil spill A pipeline rupture that spilled an estimated 101,000 gallons of crude oil near Santa Barbara last month occurred along a badly corroded section that had worn away to a fraction of an inch in thickness, federal regulators disclosed Wednesday. The preliminary findings released by the federal
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California climate change plan called most aggressive in North America On Wednesday, lawmakers pushed through an ambitious California climate change package to reduce the state’s carbon footprint and boost the use of renewable energy to 50 per cent in 15 years. The state Senate passed proposals to enact Gov. Jerry Brown’s call to curb greenhouse
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