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Obama and Trudeau put majority of US and Canadian Arctic water off-limits to offshore oil and gas leasing

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US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau jointly announced sweeping restrictions to offshore oil and gas leasing in the US and Canadian Arctic waters. Obama designated the vast majority of US waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing.

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Obama Administration releases implementation plan for the National Strategy for the Arctic Region

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The Obama Administration released the Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for the Arctic Region , itself released in May 2013. It also entails what the Administration calls the safe and responsible exploration and development of onshore and offshore Arctic non-renewable energy resources in an environmentally sound manner.

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Obama Administration recommends designating most of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as Wilderness

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million acres of land and water in northeastern Alaska and is administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) as a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System). In 1987, the Department of the Interior published the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, Coastal Plain Resource Assessment report. Source: FWS.

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Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

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Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. —President Obama.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of. Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio. Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. The T-Word Barking up the Wrong Tree: Forests vs the CDM in t.

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Flow Rate Group Preliminary Best Estimate Puts Oil Flow from Deepwater BP Well Between 12,000 and 19,000 Barrels per Day; Obama Administration Extends Suspension of Offshore Drilling

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President Obama Actions on Offshore Drilling. In remarks this morning on the Gulf spill, President Obama said that the Administration will put into place aggressive new operating standards and requirements for offshore drilling companies, based on the completion of a just concluded 30-day safety and environmental review. million to 11.3

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President Obama calls on Congress to establish $2B Energy Security Trust for advanced transportation research, funded by oil and gas royalty revenues

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In an speech at Argonne National Laboratory today, President Obama called on Congress to establish a new Energy Security Trust (EST) to invest in critical, breakthrough research focused on developing cost-effective transportation alternatives. —President Obama. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). This idea.is

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