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24/5/2013
Once again, Colorado`s fracking boom has residents wondering if there`s something in the water - carcinogenic benzene, in this case. A plant for fracked
natural gas processor Williams Energy, near Parachute, Colo., spilled an estimated 241 ...
24/5/2013
As decision day nears on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the
environmental movement looks different than it did in 2009—the last time a major climate policy fight took center stage in Washington.
Then, the nation's largest green groups ...
23/5/2013
British Columbia, the Canadian province whose official slogan to its own beauty is “Super,
Natural,” is invoking another saying: “No more supertankers.”
That’s potentially big trouble in a nation where oil exports amount to $73 billion ...
23/5/2013
German brewers called on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to block the tapping of shale
gas by means of hydraulic fracturing, citing industry concerns that fracking could taint the purity of the country’s beer.
The Association of ...
22/5/2013
In ancient times, according to Hindu legend, there was a place called Anandavana, the Forest of Bliss, which spread out along the Ganges to the south of the sacred city of Kashi, which is known today as Benares, Banaras, or Varanasi. Its shady ...
22/5/2013
A mother otter in Moss Landing Harbor, CA, tries to free her cub from a plastic bag. Photo courtesy of the Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance.
According to Bag Monster, a bill is under consideration that would regulate single-use plastic ...
22/5/2013
Critics of silica sand mining had hoped the Minnesota Legislature would adopt aggressive statewide rules to protect people and the
environment. What finally emerged from the just-completed session, however, was a compromise that still leaves key ...
22/5/2013
Canada obviously has a huge stake in the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline. If President Obama fails to approve it - a decision he recently put off yet again -- the Canadian oil industry will have a tough time getting its abundant tar-sands crude ...
21/5/2013
Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water.
This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and ...
21/5/2013
U.S. oil production is suddenly growing so fast that some analysts are questioning how much the country really needs the Canadian tar sands oil that would move through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.This month, the U.S. Energy ...
21/5/2013
Qatar-based author Mari Luomi says the Persian Gulf monarchies will have to change to be sustainable in the era of climate change. But reaping the benefits of the fossil fuel economy has blinded most of them to that.
DW: Why do you ...
19/5/2013
Methane is created
naturally near the Earth's surface, primarily by microorganisms by the process of methanogenesis. It is carried into the stratosphere by rising air in the tropics. Methane is a potent greenhouse
gas, stronger than carbon ...
19/5/2013
The news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming
gas, have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years increases the pressure on President Obama to deliver on his pledges to limit ...
17/5/2013
For everyone who was hoping the Obama administration`s proposed new rules for
natural gas drilling on public lands would make a difference, the just-released new draft amounts to a big "frack you."
Federal rules governing fracking on ...
17/5/2013
With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other ...
16/5/2013
The Obama administration on Thursday issued a new set of proposed rules governing hydraulic fracturing for oil and
gas on public lands, moving further to address industry concerns about the costs and reporting burdens of federal ...
16/5/2013
Palm oil touches our lives every time we take a trip to the supermarket. Palm oil and its derivatives are used in a ubiquitous array of packaged foods, including ice cream, cookies, crackers, chocolate products, cereals, breakfast bars, cake ...
16/5/2013
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing, on public lands today. The controversial oil and
gas development technique--in which drillers blast millions of ...
16/5/2013
The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too burdensome for ...
16/5/2013
Oil and
gas industry representatives offered qualified support for a U.S. proposal to govern hydraulic fracturing on public lands that establishes federal oversight while deferring to state standards in some cases.In the proposal released ...
16/5/2013
The Canadian government has nearly doubled its advertising spending to promote the Alberta tar sands in an aggressive new lobbying push ahead of Thursday's visit to New York by the prime minister, Stephen Harper.
The Harper government ...
16/5/2013
The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for its first major regulation of hydraulic fracturing on public lands, attempting to address at least a portion of the controversial drilling practice that’s unlocked vast new supplies ...
15/5/2013
With ministers from the eight Arctic states meeting Wednesday in Kiruna, Sweden, for the 2013 ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council, the Obama administration has laid out a broad new U.S. Arctic policy that sets strategic goals for how the ...
14/5/2013
Peru has announced a bidding round for new oil and
gas concessions but, contrary to what was initially expected, none of them are in the Amazon rainforest.
Nine concessions are to be auctioned, energy company Perupetro declared recently, ...
14/5/2013
People voiced concerns that this type of approach fails to address the basic problem of increasing greenhouse
gas emissions. They are also nervous about any unintended consequences of such an action.
But most significantly, they say that ...