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DoI cancels oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; proposes new protections in National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

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3401, which identified “multiple legal deficiencies in the underlying record supporting the leases.” million acres of the Beaufort Sea, ensuring the entire United States Arctic Ocean is off limits to new oil and gas leasing. Protections in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

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Obama Administration Opens Up Oil and Gas Development and Exploration in Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Arctic

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The strategy will guide the current 2007-2012 offshore oil and gas leasing program, which was written by the previous administration but found by the courts last year to be legally flawed, as well as the new 2012-2017 program that this administration will propose.

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F.A.A. Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design

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said the investigation stemmed from the loss of a fuselage panel of a Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines shortly after it took off on Friday from Portland, Ore., The Alaska Airline plane was at about 16,000 feet and still climbing when the panel tore away. leaving a hole in the side of the passenger cabin. and the N.T.S.B.

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Cockpit Recording’s Erasure Hampers Boeing 737 Max 9 Investigation

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Officials investigating why a panel on a Boeing 737 Max 9 blew open during an Alaska Airlines flight last week say they are struggling to piece together exactly what happened because the plane’s cockpit voice recorder overwrote itself before it could be retrieved. This is not a new problem. But the airline added that it welcomed the F.A.A.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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Grievances include claims that the executive branch is unconstitutionally manipulating the marketplace by setting requirements higher than manufacturers can adhere to, effectively mandating sales of electric vehicles that have been broadly unpopular in the United States. Swelling vehicle prices was another issue.&

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