msnbc.msn.com - 2/17/2009
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Portending a major reversal of Bush-era policy, the Obama administration on Tuesday agreed to review whether to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.
redgreenandblue.org - 2/25/2009
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar sends Bush offshore drilling
plan back to the drawing board Citing the need...
for a longer period of public review, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced today that he will “ send back to the drawing board ” the ...
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Drill Baby Drill? Not so Fast: Interior Dept. Scraps ...
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... Susan Egan Keane celebrates a move by the Obama administration toward an international treaty on mercury reduction... And MSNBC.com reports the Obama administration has agreed to review whether to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants in response to a petition from environmental groups including NRDC... ...
EPA to review Bush rule on warming emissions
Peak Oil News —
... of the Bush administration's policy on global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency granted a petition from environmental groups seeking to overturn a Bush-era EPA memo that prohibited controls of those emissions. The petition was filed by the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund. The groups had sued to overturn the Bush-era rule in court, but said the litigation would now be put on hold as a result of the EPA decision. MSNBC
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