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EHS This Week: Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline, James Bond Violates Health and Safety Standards and more!
On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news: James Bond Violates Occupational Health and Safety Standards President Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline Remember to write us with your suggestions, questions and comments. Also, if you are an industry expert and ever want to take part in the program, ...
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NRDC: Canada’s tar sands expansion would make climate change worse
Canada has no chance of hitting its international climate change targets, due to its unchecked expansion of tar sands production, the Natural Resources Defense Council said today. The announcement comes as Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is in Washington to lobby American officials on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Following is a statement by Danielle ...
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Small businesses urge president to reject keystone XL pipeline
Two leading sustainable business organizations representing 5,000 small businesses today sent a letter calling on President Obama to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and, instead, invest in clean energy technologies. The pipeline would deliver oil from the tar sands in Canada to the Gulf of Mexico across the United States. In their letter, Green America’s Green Business ...
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NRDC calls for clean debt bill
In response to efforts by House Republicans to add anti-environmental riders to legislation raising the debt limit, Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, released the following statement: “The House Republican effort to saddle debt limit legislation with anti-environmental riders is an irresponsible and reckless move. They’ve taken our future hostage, ...
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House overwhelmingly approves Keystone XL pipeline
The House overwhelmingly passed a bill on Friday authorizing the Keystone XL oil pipeline, despite a renewed pledge by the White House to veto the legislation after a Nebraska court removed a major obstacle. The House voted 266-153 to approve measure, with 28 Democrats voting in support. It was one of the first pieces of legislation considered by the Republican-controlled Congress and the 10th ...
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President’s delay tactics on Keystone XL hurt U.S. energy and job security
The American Petroleum Institute challenged President Obama to immediately boost our nation’s economic and energy security by lending his support to the entire Keystone XL pipeline. There is no reason for additional delays now that TransCanada has resubmitted a presidential permit application and Nebraska is evaluating the newly proposed route alternatives that completely avoid the Sand ...
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WEDNESDAY: EPA Administrator Joins Bloomberg Politics in a Discussion on Climate Change and the Road to Paris
On Wednesday, November 18, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will join a Q&A session at a breakfast event, “At the Table with Bloomberg Politics.” Administrator McCarthy will be interviewed by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann (Co-Managing Editors, Bloomberg Politics and Co-hosts, “With All Due Respect,” Bloomberg Television). WHAT: ...
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60 Groups urge Kerry to continue strong leadership on climate change
Sixty leading environmental, conservation, development, faith-based, and social justice organizations are congratulating Secretary of State John Kerry for his commitment to fight climate change and urging him to “spur bold and immediate action” to reduce its worsening impacts on American families and communities. The groups sent a letter today to Kerry, the former senator newly ...
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Business leaders call for rejection of keystone XL pipeline
The American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a coalition of 45 business organizations, urged President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline. “Contrary to the claims of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Petroleum Institute and other pipeline advocates who threaten political retaliation if the pipeline is not approved, Keystone XL would not deliver on jobs, energy, safety or ...
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Regulator OKs oil pipeline to Pacific Coast from Canada to Asia
Canada's regulator recommended Thursday the government approve a proposed pipeline to the Pacific Coast that would allow Canada's oil to be shipped to Asia. A three-person review panel said opening Pacific markets to Canadian oil is important to the economy and thus supported Enbridge's controversial pipeline. There are 209 conditions, but no major potential stumbling blocks such as a route ...
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Keystone Pipeline’s dangers now clearer than ever
While some would try to short-circuit the established review process for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, this common-sense approach has revealed the dangers and risks of this badly misguided effort, Anthony Swift of the Natural Resources Defense Council told a House subcommittee today. It has shown that the tar sands pipeline is a bad idea, he said. Keystone XL would pipe some of ...
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Why the American Sustainable Business Council Is Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
As business owners and leaders, we understand that climate change if not addressed, will impose substantial economic costs on the United States. All of us will spend more money to harden our infrastructure, repair storm-damaged homes, pay more for health care and fresh water and watch property values deteriorate. These costs will make the US economy less productive and less competitive. This is ...
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Press Availability for Climate Change Author/Activist Bill McKibben – 11:45 AM, Friday, Oct. 28, in Claremont
Progressive Christians Uniting: WHO: Bill McKibben, climate change activist, author, and professor WHAT: Progressive Christians Uniting (PCU), a Los Angeles-based public justice network, will make climate change activist Bill McKibben available to Southern California media outlets and independent ...
By 350.org
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11 Senate Democrats to Obama: Approve Keystone XL
Eleven Senate Democrats, including six who face contested races this year, urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline by the end of May. The five-year review of the Canada-to-Texas pipeline has been "exhaustive in its time, breadth and scope" and has taken longer than reasonably justified, the senators wrote to the president. Approval of the pipeline is ...
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Activists prepare for renewed fight over Dakota Access Pipeline
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer strongly hinted this week that President Donald Trump would rescind the permit denial that is prohibiting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), prompting activists opposed to the pipeline to pledge a new round of clashes over the controversial project. Last December, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers announced it would not grant a final permit ...
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Press Availability for Climate Change Author/Activist Bill McKibben – 11:45 AM, Friday, Oct. 28, in Claremont
Progressive Christians Uniting: WHO: Bill McKibben, climate change activist, author, and professor WHAT: Progressive Christians Uniting (PCU), a Los Angeles-based public justice network, will make climate change activist Bill McKibben available to Southern California media outlets and independent ...
By 350.org
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AOPL Releases New Pipeline Safety Statistics & Strategies
This month the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL) released their 2015 annual report on liquid pipeline safety in the United States, its reported numbers now entering a debate that has been making headlines in recent months. At the heart of the debate is this question: how safe are our pipelines? Recent Pipeline Leaks Gain Attention In the U.S., two major pipeline leaks in January 2015 have ...
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Latest Oil Spill Increases Scrutiny on Pipeline Safety & Compliance
The pipeline spill in Alberta, Canada last month has reignited many conversations about pipeline safety and regulation for the oil and gas industry. These conversations are coming at a critical time for the industry – perhaps even a turning point. As many are well aware, it is becoming more and more difficult for pipeline projects to achieve the necessary approvals to get off the ground, ...
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Audubon President David Yarnold Calls Obama Decision on Keystone Pipeline
Audubon President David Yarnold Calls Obama Decision on Keystone Pipeline "A Victory for Common Sense." Full Statement: "This was a gutsy call by the President. But it was also a victory for common sense. You don't pipe potentially lethal goo through one of America's largest wetland ecosystems. "An environmental disaster of epic proportions has been avoided by the rejection of the ...
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NRDC: Secretary John Kerry is Right on Urgency to Address Climate Change
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director of the International Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, made this statement in response to Secretary of State John Kerry's speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, today about the urgent global need to fight the ravages of climate change: “Sec. Kerry is right: The global community needs to come together to combat climate change. And the United States ...
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