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The EPA just announced new regulations to curb the air pollution associated with the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells. Many companies, such as Southwestern Energy, already meet the new rules.
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The ability to extract natural gas from shale, using a controversial technique known as fracking, is reshaping America's energy landscape.
by Marc Gunther
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The two top-tier environmentalists, who have taken very different paths to addressing our environmental woes, sat down last week to talk about the growth of renewables, the need to break the power of the fossil fuel industries, and more.
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In the last two weeks, about 700 Americans -- with more to come -- have been arrested in front of the White House, calling on President Obama to block the construction of the $7 billion, 1700-mile Keystone pipeline project that will bring Canadian tar sands oil to the largest refineries in the United States.
by Marc Gunther
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The State Department makes a trans-continental oil pipeline closer to reality, genetically modified crops lose their effects on bugs, and old car batteries get put to use in smart grids in today's mostly-bad-news roundup.
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The Marcellus Shale gas estimate gets a huge cut, reporters find oil on the surface of the sea in the Gulf, and H&M publishes its ninth annual CSR report, in this morning's first look.
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The new rules are the third set of strict efficiency and emissions standards put in place by the Obama Administration to cover cars, light-duty trucks, and now heavy-duty vehicles.
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The extractive industries are preparing to swoop in and capture their shares of Arctic oil and gas as the top of the world loses its ice cover. Here's how they can approach it with caution, transparency and risk mitigation in mind.
by Mat McDermid
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The latest episode of Energy Now! focuses on coal-fired power plants -- how did we get so dependent on coal, is it possible to make it cleaner, and when will we get beyond coal?
by energyNOW !
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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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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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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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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