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California meets greenhouse gas reduction goal years early

July 12, 2018
Source: The Associated Press
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

California greenhouse gas emissions fell below 1990 levels, meeting an early target years ahead of schedule and putting the state well on its way toward reaching long-term goals to fight climate change.

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Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life

July 11, 2018
Source: The Guardian
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found — amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault.

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Air pollution linked to 3.2 million new diabetes cases in one year

July 4, 2018
Source: CNN
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

Levels of air pollution well below what is considered safe by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization are causing an increased risk of diabetes worldwide, according to a study published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health.

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Oil industry copes with climate impacts as permafrost thaws

July 2, 2018
Source: NPR
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

Oil operations in Alaska are specially designed for freezing conditions. But as the climate changes, the state is warming twice as fast as the rest of the country.

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Is Big Oil serious about methane emissions?

June 4, 2018
Source: Houston Chronicle
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

The American oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron are typically the bane of environmentalists, but their recent annual meetings only attracted muted protests compared to previous years.

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Companies take first steps to drill for oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

May 31, 2018
Source: The Washington Post
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

Two Alaska Native corporations and a small oil services firm together have applied to do extensive seismic work next winter in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the first move toward development there since Congress voted late last year to open up the pristine wilderness to oil and gas drilling.

Landon Hall

Investors urge fossil fuel firms to shun Trump’s Arctic drilling plans

May 21, 2018
Source: The Guardian
/in Environment, What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

Companies extracting oil and gas from the wilderness area in Alaska would face “enormous reputational risk and public backlash”, the investors say in a letter sent to 100 fossil fuel companies and the banks that finance them.

Landon Hall

Florida congressional delegation gives thumbs-down to offshore drilling

May 17, 2018
Source: McClatchy
/in Environment, What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

Florida’s congressional delegation, citing the state’s vibrant tourism industry, delivered a unanimous, bipartisan and stern message of opposition to offshore energy exploration during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Landon Hall

Majority of voters oppose Trump offshore drilling plan: poll

May 11, 2018
Source: The Hill
/in Environment, What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

More than half of voters oppose proposed plans by the Trump administration to expand oil and gas drilling off coastal states, according to a poll out Tuesday.

Landon Hall

Scott Pruitt wants to freeze fuel economy standards. Here’s what that would do.

May 4, 2018
Source: Vox
/in Environment, What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

Last month, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that the agency will abandon the long-term fuel economy standards developed by the Obama administration for 2022-2025, declaring, without evidence, that they are “too high.”

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