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Republican Pipeline Bill Would Speed Keystone XL Approval

...... portion of the project from Oklahoma To Texas the , -mile pipeline would travel though Montana , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas and Oklahoma on its way to refineries near Houston and Port Arthur , Texas the State Department , which has completed more than , pages of environmental review on the proposed pipeline over the years , said in a draft report this spring ......

(438 words by huffingtonpost.com)
(05/22/2013)

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House passes GOP bill to speed pipeline approval - Yahoo! News

...... western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast the , -mile pipeline would travel though Montana , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas and Oklahoma on its way to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur , Texas Supporters say the pipeline would create thousands of jobs , help lower fuel prices and bolster North American energy resources Opponents call the project a carbon bomb ......

(534 words by yahoo.com)
(05/22/2013)

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House passes GOP bill to speed approval of Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada - The Washington Post

...... western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast the , -mile pipeline would travel though Montana , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas and Oklahoma on its way to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur , Texas Supporters say the pipeline would create thousands of jobs , help lower fuel prices and bolster North American energy resources Opponents call the project a carbon bomb ......

(642 words by washingtonpost.com)
(05/22/2013)

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Congress must quit dithering on climate change - The Washington Post

...... urge Mr Smith to pursue a revenue-neutral carbon tax to best manage this issue , and attached to that bill can be a prohibition on the EPA regulating carbon emissions Peter Bryn , Houston the writer is the Houston chapter leader of the Citizens Climate Lobby Rep Lamar Smith rsquo s op-ed was surprisingly th-century Unfortunately , he rsquo s supposed to be helping to ......

(672 words by washingtonpost.com)
(05/22/2013)
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Oklahoma tornado was 600 TIMES more powerful than Hiroshima atomic bomb | Mail Online

...... and lots of bad luck , experts said If you look at the climate history of tornadoes in May , you will see they cluster in a spot , maybe miles wide , in central Oklahoma , Houston said That where the weather conditions of warm , moist air and strong wind shear needed for tornadoes combine , in just the right balance 'Central Oklahoma is a hot spot and there a good ......

(1359 words by dailymail.co.uk)
(05/22/2013)

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Oklahoma tornado video: The terrifying moment tornado hits land | Mail Online

...... and lots of bad luck , experts said If you look at the climate history of tornadoes in May , you will see they cluster in a spot , maybe miles wide , in central Oklahoma , Houston said That where the weather conditions of warm , moist air and strong wind shear needed for tornadoes combine , in just the right balance 'Central Oklahoma is a hot spot and there a good ......

(1344 words by dailymail.co.uk)
(05/22/2013)
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Not Your Grandpa's RV: This Roving Lab Tracks Air Pollution : NPR

...... of it Starting in Florida , Leifer and a couple of assistants took , methane measurements as they drove west He says the measurements steadily increased as the RV approached Houston , which is home to hundreds of petrochemical plants Driving around the plants and natural-gas pumping stations , he often found spikes of methane And after we left the Houston area , we then ......

(988 words by npr.org)
(05/22/2013)
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House passes GOP bill to speed pipeline approval - Business - Boston.com

...... western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast the , -mile pipeline would travel though Montana , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas and Oklahoma on its way to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur , Texas Opponents call the project a lsquo lsquo carbon bomb rsquo rsquo that would carry lsquo lsquo dirty oil rsquo rsquo that could trigger global ......

(357 words by boston.com)
(05/22/2013)
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House passes another bill authorizing Keystone XL - Houston Chronicle

...... to the benefit of a foreign company I want to see this pipeline built , he said , but we don't even do that for our domestic companies Democrats in favor Houston Democrat Gene Green voted for the legislation , saying he shared the frustration of Republican lawmakers that environmental reviews have delayed a final decision on the project But he noted the bill has no chance in ......

(852 words by chron.com)
(05/22/2013)

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U.S. House passes GOP bill to speed Keystone XL pipeline approval

...... western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast the , -mile pipeline would travel though Montana , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas and Oklahoma on its way to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur , Texas Supporters say the pipeline would create thousands of jobs , help lower fuel prices and bolster North American energy resources Opponents call the project a carbon bomb ......

(721 words by billingsgazette.com)
(05/22/2013)
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LNG exports on hold until data review by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz | Tulsa World

...... studies are outdated Last week , the Energy Department gave tentative approval for Freeport LNG Expansion LP to export up to billion cubic of LNG per day from its terminal south of Houston the permit would be for shipments to countries that do not have free trade agreements with the US Freeport is the second export project to win Energy Department authorization , following the Sabine ......

(704 words by tulsaworld.com)
(05/22/2013)
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Air Products Celebrates Texas Carbon Capture Demonstration Project Achievement

...... specifications Incidentally , Air Products Gulf Coast hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network is the world largest system of its kind the pipeline stretches from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas To New Orleans , Louisiana the -mile pipeline span is fed by over Air Products hydrogen production facilities and provides over billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day to ......

(947 words by dailymarkets.com)
(05/22/2013)
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Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb - Yahoo! News

...... and lots of bad luck , experts said If you look at the climate history of tornadoes in May , you will see they cluster in a spot , maybe miles wide , in central Oklahoma , Houston said That where the weather conditions of warm , moist air and strong wind shear needed for tornadoes combine , in just the right balance Central Oklahoma is a hot spot and there a good ......

(1270 words by yahoo.com)
(05/21/2013)

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Should We Blame Climate Change for the Moore Tornado? - Yahoo! News

...... Marshall Shepherd DrShepherd May , Believability ppm While not a scientist , Shepherd is definitely in a position to have an informed opinion Houston Chronicle SciGuy Why not both As The SciGuy Eric Berger notes , we were recently talking about how few tornadoes we'd seen Which may mean that tornadoes will be like rainfall bigger storms and ......

(1352 words by yahoo.com)
(05/21/2013)

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Joe Oliver: The end of fossil fuels would be an economic and social catastrophe - The Globe and Mail

...... After taking a hiatus during the US election campaign , Natural Resources minister Joe Oliver headed south of the border in March To Chicago and Houston , and in April To Washington where he met the new interior secretary , Sally Jewel , State Department under-secretary Robert Hormats and senior members of Congress During his visit to the capital , Mr Oliver excoriated former NASA ......

(853 words by theglobeandmail.com)
(05/21/2013)
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Oklahoma tornado renews climate-change argument | cleveland.com

...... might signal an end to the tornado drought So , the actual question is whether climate change is influencing tornado disasters like the one in Oklahoma Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle jumped right into the fray and finds that a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official in said there currently is no evidence to link tornado activity to climate change ......

(1113 words by cleveland.com)
(05/21/2013)
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Key ingredients led to Oklahoma tornado | Nation & World | The Seattle Times

...... of warm , moist air and strong wind shear needed for tornadoes combine , in just the right balance Central Oklahoma is a hot spot and there rsquo s a good reason for it , Houston said There rsquo s this perfect combination where the jet stream is strong , the instability is large and the typical position for this juxtaposition climatologically is central Oklahoma ......

(1419 words by seattletimes.com)
(05/21/2013)
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Analysis: At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoria | Reuters

...... calculations , the average oil production per well per days the well was active , was barrels per day - about one-tenth what it is in North Dakota Jonathan Garrett At Wood Mackenzie in Houston says the Utica may yet prove to be a successful natural gas development , with close proximity to the East Coast demand center But with natural gas trading at a low per million British thermal ......

(1252 words by reuters.com)
(05/20/2013)
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Superstorm is destroying Syria - Houston Chronicle

...... had occupied the classrooms and little kids shirts and pants were drying on a line strung across the playground There is just enough patched-up order for people to the Houston Chronicle is the premier local news provider for the country th largest city Currently the nation sixth-largest newspaper , the Houston Chronicle is a multimedia company publishing print and online ......

(830 words by chron.com)
(05/19/2013)
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Not Your Grandpa's RV: This Roving Lab Tracks Air Pollution : NPR

...... of it Starting in Florida , Leifer and a couple of assistants took , methane measurements as they drove west He says the measurements steadily increased as the RV approached Houston , which is home to hundreds of petrochemical plants Driving around the plants and natural-gas pumping stations , he often found spikes of methane And after we left the Houston area , we then ......

(991 words by npr.org)
(05/18/2013)

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A three-storey mound of Canada's oil waste grows in Detroit - The Globe and Mail

...... Agency will no longer allow any new licenses permitting the burning of petroleum coke in the United States But D Mark Routt , a staff energy consultant at KBC Advanced Technologies in Houston , said that overseas companies saw it as a cheap alternative to low-grade coal In China , it is used to generate electricity , adding to that country air-quality problems There is also strong ......

(1061 words by theglobeandmail.com)
(05/18/2013)

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US eases natural gas glut with second export terminal (+video) - CSMonitor.com

...... Natural gas exports have been the subject of much debate in Washington and across the country as policymakers and industry analysts weigh the pros and cons Steve Campbell Houston Chronicle AP File Why It Matters Energy A boom in US energy production , thanks largely to the development of shale gas resources , allows the US to export natural gas Environment Natural gas exports ......

(728 words by csmonitor.com)
(05/18/2013)
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Alternative Fuels: Coal-to-liquids' prospects dim, but boosters won't say die -- Friday, May 17, 2013 -- www.eenews.net

...... gas chemical processing We are working very hard to bring the capital down It is a big number , and we'd obviously like to optimize on that number But we have a team on the ground in Houston working very hard , Sasol executive Andr eacute de Ruyter told E E TV in an interview earlier this year We have a site identified We have got the land acquired And we're working very ......

(2831 words by eenews.net)
(05/18/2013)
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Tesoro wins antitrust OK to buy California BP refinery - Yahoo! News

...... By Diane Bartz and Erwin Seba WASHINGTON HOUSTON Reuters - Refiner Tesoro Corp has received formal approval from antitrust regulators in Washington and Sacramento on Friday to buy BP Plc refinery and other assets in southern California for more than billion Tesoro will not have to sell any of the assets anti-trust regulators said , but California officials demanded the company ......

(654 words by yahoo.com)
(05/17/2013)

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Tesoro wins antitrust OK to buy California BP refinery | Business | Reuters

...... By Diane Bartz and Erwin Seba WASHINGTON HOUSTON Reuters - Refiner Tesoro Corp TSO N Quote has received formal approval from antitrust regulators in Washington and Sacramento on Friday to buy BP Plc BP L Quote refinery and other assets in southern California for more than billion Tesoro will not have to sell any of the assets anti-trust regulators said , but ......

(312 words by reuters.com)
(05/17/2013)
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Freeport Gas Export Project Gets U.S. Energy Department Nod (1) - Businessweek

...... , wants to install refrigeration units , storage tanks and other equipment alongside its existing gas-import terminal on Quintana Island about miles kilometers south of Houston the Freeport LNG project must still win approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the big hurdle was thought to be the Energy Department , which must decide if the projects are in ......

(908 words by businessweek.com)
(05/17/2013)

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Global Pollution and Prevention News: Methane Across the Country

...... satellite to confirm the finding of strong methane sources in regions of fossil fuel activity the surface measurements found methane levels increased as the researchers moved toward Houston , and then decreased as they continued westward mdash the same trend observed in satellite data spanning the continent Previous methane studies have focused primarily on large-scale airborne ......

(843 words by enn.com)
(05/17/2013)
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Abbott budget reply 2013: fiscal balance but strong rhetoric | Crikey

...... which of course sounds much more like a war on dole bludgers than class warfare This reduction in Australia humanitarian intake , which reverses the recommendation of the government Houston panel , is both bad policy and morally reprehensible the Coalition is proposing that one of the world richest countries cut its intake of bona fide refugees by over , while at the same time ......

(632 words by crikey.com.au)
(05/17/2013)
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Alternative Fuels: Coal-to-liquids' prospects dim, but boosters won't say die -- Friday, May 17, 2013 -- www.eenews.net

...... gas chemical processing We are working very hard to bring the capital down It is a big number , and we'd obviously like to optimize on that number But we have a team on the ground in Houston working very hard , Sasol executive Andr eacute de Ruyter told E E TV in an interview earlier this year We have a site identified We have got the land acquired And we're working very ......

(2915 words by eenews.net)
(05/17/2013)
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