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New Paper Reveals Rail Industry Was Leader in Climate Denial Efforts

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Tags: Association of American Railroads climate denial In the paper, Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S. Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989-2015 , author Robert Brulle, looks at “key political coalitions that worked to oppose climate action.

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Routine Gas Flaring Is Wasteful, Polluting and Under-measured

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Tags: flaring Bakken Shale Permian Basin Texas Railroad Commission Over the past 10 years, the U.S. shale oil and gas boom has made this country one of the world’s top five flaring nations , just behind Russia , Iran and Iraq. It’s a dubious distinction. Routine flaring gives the industry a black eye.

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The Oil War in the Permian May Not Have Any Winners

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Tags: Permian Basin ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Texas Railroad Commission Anadarko Ryan Sitton Chevron (NYSE: CVX) Read time: 9 mins At the same time a price war is raging in the global oil markets, a regional price war is playing out in the shale fields of Texas.

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Op-Ed: The US Must Protect Communities and Workers But We Need Our Leaders to Stop Bending to the Oil and Gas Industry

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One of those state boards is the Railroad Commission of Texas, a little-known agency that oversees oil and gas activities across the state. Ryan Sitton is both current Railroad Texas Commissioner and founder of an oil and gas consulting company. The hypothetical nation described here is in fact Texas.

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Princeton Maps Reveal US Plans for Massive CO2 Pipeline Buildout

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The price tag for just this stretch of pipeline is estimated to be $7 billion dollars (page 25 of Princeton report Annex). How would you cross highways, railroads, and rivers? Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has proposed that new regulations on these pipelines are needed.

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Forecast for 2020: More Oil Trains, Fires, Spills, and the Rise of LNG by Rail

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Tags: Bomb Trains oil by rail LPG by rail Association of American Railroads Trump Administration to fiery oil train derailments and new approvals for moving liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) by rail.

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Trump Admin Proposes New Rule to Allow Shipping Flammable LNG by Rail

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Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ( PHMSA ) and Federal Railroad Administration ( FRA ), would allow the rail industry to move LNG in rail tank cars, labeled DOT -113, currently used to ship small quantities of other flammable gases super-cooled into liquid form. .