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Tapping the energy stored in a rock formation called the Marcellus Shale has been an economic boon to Pennsylvania, but is the state -- and the planet -- paying an environmental price?
by energyNOW !
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The competing and often strident claims about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas can obscure the real story of the risks involved. As a recent report notes, the chemicals and drilling waste are more hazardous above ground than miles beneath it.<br />
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A high-efficiency system installed in partnership with Panasonic has brought nearly 1,700 solar panels to the raceway, which is also home to 3,000 sheep that tend its grasslands.
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Although natural gas is the big thing for energy in an era of $4 gasoline, we need a more balanced look at what's gained, and lost, if we embrace it too heartily.
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Resolutions addressing the issue at Chevron and ExxonMobil, co-filed by As You Sow and other sustainable investors, win substantial shareowner support, and Ultra Petroleum declines to release results of vote at its annual meeting.
by Robert Kropp
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General Electric's announcement of its next-generation natural gas power plant illustrates how natural gas has become the fuel of choice for the global electricity business.
by Marc Gunther
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The recent IHS customer conference showed how its customers -- large emitters, such as utilities, oil & gas firms and heavy manufacturers -- are investing in sustainability, slowly moving from facility-based solutions to enterprise-wide processes and corporate energy management.
by Paul Baier
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NASCAR is taking a shot at environmental change by pumping 15 percent ethanol into cars this season. Television news magazine energyNOW! heads to the track for the story and shares its video with GreenBiz.com.
by energyNOW !
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The Gulf oil spill is front and center throughout the report, but achievements and future sustainability goals are nearly absent.
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In the wake of oil price increases after uprisings in the Middle East, the Spanish government is taking steps to make citizens and businesses cut down their oil use.
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A BP-backed research project promises to commercialize a new method to make cellusosic ethanol "very soon."
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A report from the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance suggests that, led by wind and biopower, a diversity of renewable energy technologies could help replace the region's reliance on coal as a power source.
by Robert Kropp
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The Obama administration today took the wraps off its proposed national standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel efficiency for heavy duty trucks and buses -- the first measures for such vehicles in the U.S.
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Research contracts between universities and the oil sector often fail to provide sufficient academic control and independence, a new report suggests.
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Shareholders have filed resolutions with three oil companies asking for their respective boards of directors to review political spending and policies in light of their support for overturning California's climate change law.
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Two Texas oil companies have come traipsing into California politics by funding a multimillion-dollar effort to suspend the state's landmark climate legislation, AB 32. The tactic has inspired this open letter on behalf of the Golden State.
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Qatar Airways, the first airline to run a commercial passenger flight powered by fuel made from natural gas, was honored for its achievement in recent industry awards from Airline Business magazine.<br />
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What can we do to make sure that disasters like Deepwater spill don't happen again? Green chemistry, a science that calls for eliminating hazards and waste at the design stage rather than at the end of the pipe, is among the many answers to the question.
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With the temporary oil spill cap seeming to last long enough for permanent fixes to come on line, the BP crisis is likely to shift out of disaster response mode and accountants will ramp up the tallying of costs. But one group will be counting profits instead of losses because of the principles they apply in screening investments.
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At a remote outpost in what is known as the Urucu Oil Province, Brazilian energy giant Petrobas produces oil and natural gas -- an example of what it calls "sustainable development." The project may not be sustainable in the strictest sense, but it is surprisingly about as environmentally benign as an oil-drilling project in a rainforest can be.
by Marc Gunther
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After a week at the Shanghai Expo, I've seen competing visions of what the future looks like.
by Joel Makower
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In spring, about the time the press coverage of the Gulf oil spill cranked into high gear, Shelton Group conducted a poll to see whether the event was affecting mindset of Americans on energy. The result may be one of the rare bits of "good news" to surface since the disaster.
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If you like the BP oil spill, you're going to love carbon capture and storage...
by Marc Gunther
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ExxonMobil shed light on how it is expanding the world's energy supply while reducing its environmental impacts on Tuesday, the day before the oil giant faces a shareholder vote to force more disclosure on its Candaian oil sands investments.
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Proponents of tapping Canada's oil sands have wasted no time loudly pitching themselves as the great North American alternative to risky deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. In reality, this is a risky undertaking on a scale with offshore drilling.