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EPA Seeks Pavillion Peer Review Panel

The agency is looking for experts to review a controversial draft report released last month that linked drilling operations in Pavillion, Wyoming, to water contamination in the area. Encana, the operator of the natural gas field, had requested a peer review of EPA’s findings.

18Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Wants More Time from EPA to Respond to Water Contamination Report

Last Friday the energy company sent a letter to Paul Antastas, assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Research and Development. In it, Encana asked the EPA to lengthen the 45-day comment period — which is set to expire on January 27 — for comments on a report the agency issued last month on its study of groundwater contamination near the town of Pavillion.

10Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry: Pavillion Report Won’t Affect Niobrara Play

As many continue to question the scientific conclusions of the findings, both the EPA and industry representatives say the specific concerns raised in the report are not applicable to southeast Wyoming — because the Niobrara formation is geologically much different than the Pavillion area.

4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Slams EPA Over ‘Not Factual’
Pavillion Draft Report

In a detailed press release to media, the energy company noted that many of the EPA’s findings from its recent deep monitoring wells, including those related to any potential connection between fracking and Pavillion groundwater quality, “are conjecture, not factual, and only serve to trigger undue alarm.”

13Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Delays Refinery Greenhouse Gas Rule

In a statement Monday, the agency said it “needs more time to complete work on greenhouse gas pollution standards for oil refineries, and is working with the litigants to develop a new schedule to replace the current date of mid-December for a
rule proposal.”

22Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Breaking News — EPA to Regulate Fracking Wastewater Disposal

Federal environmental regulators say they will develop national standards for disposal of the polluted “produced water” generated by hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The agency said it will draft standards for fracking wastewater that drillers would have to meet before sending it to treatment plants.

20Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Climate Pollution From Gas Drilling Overstated Says New Study

“Estimates are being used that are not supported by data, do not reflect current industry practice and would be unreliable to use as a base for decision-making,” Mary Barcella, the company’s director of North American natural gas, said in a news release.

25Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Regulators Postpone Methane Farming Discussion

The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission decided to hold off on discussing new state rules for methane farming until its next meeting on Sept. 20. The EPA has been paying close attention to the nascent industry to make sure the technique won’t contaminate groundwater.

11Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Delays Decision on Ethanol-Blended Gas

A decision initially was expected in December but the Energy Department said it needed more time to test older vehicles due to mechanical failures in test vehicles unrelated to fuel — which is expected to be completed at the end of the year.

22Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report Says New EPA Rules Will Erode
Power Grid Reliability

Four federal environmental regulations to improve water and air quality could by 2018 chop by nearly half the amount of projected reserve energy available to the US power grid, according to the NERC report.

27Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Commission Approves Regulations
for Hydraulic Fracturing

Language in the regulation means the industry won’t have to disclose the proprietary chemicals used in the process, still, “This ruling was the right thing to do,” said Western Resource Advocates staff attorney Dan Heilig. “One look at the Gulf of Mexico is proof that things don’t always turn out the way drilling companies expect.”

9Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA FRACKING STUDY to Take “Lifecycle” Approach to Analyzing Controversial Technique

The industry is particularly concerned about the EPA’s reference to a “lifecycle analysis” as part of the study. The agency has attempted a similar “lifecycle” approach to renewable fuels, with great controversy and little agreement among stakeholders as to the viability of such an analysis.

13Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Refinery Association Chairman Says EPA Rules Will
Freeze Investment

Valero’s Bill Klesse, also chairman of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, told the industry gathering that such regulation would increase costs for an industry already struggling with low margins and sluggish demand amid a slow economic recovery.

23Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA: No Plans for Own Carbon Trading Program

The Obama administration has no plans to set up a “cap-and-trade” program for greenhouse gases under existing law if Congress doesn’t pass legislation doing so, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in remarks at the National Press Club in Washington.

9Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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