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U.S. lifts 40 year-old oil export ban.
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On December 22, 1975, to stifle the impact of future oil embargos by foreign oil producing countries, President Gerald R. Ford signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA). Ford signed the bill after the 1973 Arab oil embargo shook the U.S. with high world oil prices. The law required the president to ban crude ... |
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Paris climate conference ends with weak deal, no emission reduction targets.
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COP21, the United Nations climate change conference, reached an agreement on December 12, 2015, which aims to hold the global temperature rise to below 2°C, and possibly to below 1.5°C, above pre-industrial levels, but does not contain any greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction mandates, targets, or specific actions to achieve that goal. Instead, the agreement ... |
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China to decrease sulfur emissions in ports.
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Ships, including ocean-going vessels, which operate in the areas near the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and the Bohai Sea, will be obliged to use fuel containing less than 0.5% sulfur from January 1, 2019, according to the Chinese Ministry of Transportation’s new regulations and as reported by World Maritime News. Due to the ... |
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San Diego adopts ambitious, legally binding plan to cut emissions.
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Raising the bar for municipalities across the country, San Diego has adopted one of the nation's most ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions. The city's document goes further than the historic climate change deal forged by world leaders gathered in Paris: It creates legally binding mandates for reducing levels of greenhouse gases, according to a ... |
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Utah could be first state deemed ‘serious’ for PM 2.5 non-attainment.
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The Environmental Protection Agency says it's clear that Utah won't be any closer to cleaning small-particulate pollution from its air by the end of December 2015, so it's proposing to give the state extra time to pull together a plan to do so — in exchange for reclassifying the state's failure to meet federal air-quality ... |
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New York proposes NOx and PM limits for diesel and natural gas DG engines.
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) is proposing Part 222 to set emission limitations of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) for distributed generation (DG) sources, which includes diesel generators and natural gas-fired engines generally used to provide back-up power for large buildings such as hospitals and office buildings, according to ... |
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