natural gas
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Good news: Americans are using a lot less coal
Here is a bit of energy-use news to feel good about: Americans are using a lot less coal. In the first quarter of this year, the portion of the country’s electricity that came from coal was almost 20 percent less than in the same period last year. And overall, the Energy Information Administration predicts, coal […]
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It’s almost impossible for Pa. landowners to find out about fracking violations
Fracking companies might be violating drilling rules all over the place, but in Pennsylvania, landowners who leased their property to gas companies likely have no idea. CNN Money reports: That’s because the state agency charged with regulating the wells — the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) — does not have to notify landowners if a […]
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Meatpacking plant turns into net-zero-energy vertical farm
Soon, a former meatpacking plant in Chicago will replace carcasses and rendering vats with bakers and brewers and fish farmers and mushroom growers. The Plant (ho ho, a double meaning!) is gathering together a bunch of food-makers to create a self-sustaining system in the 93,500-square-foot abandoned space. As Fast Company reports, a former meatpacking plant […]
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Critical List: New rules for fracking’s air pollution; prehistoric microbes live
Natural gas companies have to work on sending less methane and other hazardous compounds into the air, according to new EPA rules. The House passed that new Keystone XL provision. Oregon towns on the coast are toying with the idea of becoming major coal export ports. But it’s maaaaybe not the best idea.
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Depressing videos show the human toll of fracking
Because your Friday could use a little bleakness, here’s the trailer for Water Defense’s “Natural Gas Exxposed” video series, showing the toll that fracking takes on communities.
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Critical List: Earthquake off the coast of Indonesia; Tennessee anti-climate teaching bill now a law
A look at the news of the day.
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Ohio fracking is latest target for anti-Keystone activists
The folks who brought you the blockbuster protests against the Keystone XL pipeline are planning the largest-ever demonstration against natural-gas fracking.
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Critical List: Mexico City’s pollution-busting vertical gardens; tiny kitchens
A look at the news of the day.
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Anti-coal campaign is ‘the most significant achievement of American environmentalists’ since the 1970s
The Sierra Club's anti-coal campaign has shut down proposals for 166 coal-fired power plants.