Posts Tagged ‘regulations’
Editorial: Make fracking safer
>> New York Times
Oil and gas drilling will always be a risky business. The administration cannot let pass this opportunity to make it safer.
Air rule to be scrapped as Obama seeks to eliminate ‘burdens’
>> Greenwire
In what the White House calls a milestone in its effort to cut red tape, the Obama administration today said it was overhauling or eliminating five regulations – including a Clinton-era air-pollution rule – in an effort to save $6 billion in unnecessary costs over the next five years.
Ohio drilling panel member faces conflict of interest questions
>> Columbus Dispatch
A consultant’s work to help negotiate Utica shale oil and gas mineral-rights leases creates a conflict of interest with his duties on a state panel that hears drilling complaints, the Ohio Ethics Commission decided yesterday.
Wisconsin power plant to get $250 million pollution control upgrade
>> Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin Public Service Corp. said it plans to spend $250 million to help one of its coal-fired boilers in Wausau comply with federal air pollution rules.
New fracking rules include concessions to industry
>> New York Times
Under the new federal regulations, companies will have to reveal the composition of fluids only after they have completed drilling — a sharp change from the government’s original proposal.
Ameren seeks more time to meet Illinois pollution standards
>> St. Louis Business Journal
Ameren Energy Resources filed a petition Thursday with the Illinois Pollution Control Board, seeking more time to meet certain emissions standards established by the Illinois Multi-Pollutant Standards.
Michigan AG leading effort to overturn EPA mercury rules
>> Crain's Detroit Business
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is leading an effort by 19 other state attorneys general and the governor of Iowa to overturn tough mercury pollution standards that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put into effect last December.
EPA finalizes air pollution rules for fracking operations
>> The Hill
The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled first-ever regulations Wednesday aimed at reducing toxic air pollution from the natural-gas drilling practice known as “fracking.”
Plans for existing plants were in earlier draft of EPA climate rules
>> Politico
The EPA’s apparent change of heart on plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions at existing power plants came during a White House review of the agency’s proposed greenhouse gas rule for new plants, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.
As pollution from fracking rises, EPA to issue new rules
>> McClatchy
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce the first national rules to reduce air pollution at hydraulically fractured wells and some other oil and gas industry operations.
