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Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

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The participants intend this program to be implemented on a regional basis after a critical mass of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states have completed the legal processes to implement the agreed upon pricing mechanism. —Transportation & Climate Initiative Statement.

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Apache confirms significant new resource play in Texas: 75 Tcf gas, 3B barrels of oil

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Apache Corporation has confirmed the discovery of a significant new resource play—the “Alpine High”—in the southern portion of the Delaware Basin, primarily in Reeves County, Texas. These formations are in the wet gas window and are expected to deliver a combination of rich gas and oil.

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Chevron to acquire Anadarko in $33B deal; shale and tight, deepwater, LNG

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Chevron said that its acquisition of Anadarko will significantly enhance its upstream portfolio and further strengthen its leading positions in large, attractive shale, deepwater and natural gas resource basins. in cash for each Anadarko share.

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

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Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. greenhouse gas emissions. Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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Why Wall Street is throwing billions at the Permian

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The collapse of oil prices has ground shale drilling to a halt, but the one region where drilling is still active, and even increasing, is in West Texas. The companies are essentially creating a pure play company to target the Delaware Basin in the Permian, the latest vote of confidence for a region that is undergoing a resurgence.

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Why you might be charging your EV wrong – and what to do instead

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Professors Frances Sprei of Sweden’s Chalmers University and Willett Kempton of the University of Delaware are EV technology and usage experts. Refueling with gasoline takes only a few minutes, and one has to drive to or stop at a gas station. If recharging is started at the right time and place, it takes only seconds to plug in.

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Governors of 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Agree to Work Together Toward Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels; Timeline for Developing a Potential Low Carbon Fuel Standard for Region

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that commits their states to continued participation in a regional effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels for vehicles and other uses. Signing the Memorandum of Understanding were the Governors from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

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