Energy

Illinois' New Fracking Regulations Might Not Be So Tough After All

And they're a "starting gun" for industry, one critic warns.

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| Tue Jun. 18, 2013 11:15 AM PDT

Is This Conservative Think Tank Astroturfing the EPA To Approve Pebble Mine?

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is beind 99.25% of the pro-mining comments.

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| Mon Jun. 17, 2013 11:04 AM PDT
Reindeer:

Grazing Reindeer Take a Bite Out of Global Warming

Where and when reindeer graze changes the surface albedo of the tundra and influences the warming cycle of the Arctic.

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| Thu Jun. 6, 2013 3:03 AM PDT

Democrats Call on Obama's Budget Office to Cough Up Rules

A group of Senate and House Democrats want the new head of the Office of Management and Budget to deliver all the environmental, health and safety regulations that have been MIA for months.

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| Wed Jun. 5, 2013 12:09 PM PDT

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British Columbia Rejects West Coast Pipeline Plan

Government says questions about tar sands pipeline have not been answered.

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| Fri May. 31, 2013 12:42 PM PDT
Tree frog.

Farewell, Froggy: The Age of Ribbit Is Nearing an End

A new analysis finds frogs, toad, and salamanders are disappearing faster than ever imagined from everywhere in the US landscape.

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| Sat May. 25, 2013 3:05 AM PDT
Deepwater Horizon

How to Make Staggering Amounts of Money and Ruin the Planet

The people running Exxon and BP are knowingly destroying the environment, and they'll never go to jail for it.

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| Thu May. 23, 2013 11:13 AM PDT

Grassroots Greens Challenge Environmental Defense Fund on Fracking

The latest crossfire in the ongoing big green vs. little green fight over natural gas.

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| Wed May. 22, 2013 1:34 PM PDT
U-Boat

How Hitler's U-Boats Are Still Attacking Us

Tankers downed by German U-Boats in World War II threaten to leak fuel into US waters.

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| Tue May. 21, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Which States Use the Most Green Energy?

A wave of ALEC-backed bills could stall bringing more states up to snuff.

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| Thu May. 16, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

John Kerry Updates His Climate Change Creds at the Arctic Council

Kerry travels to Sweden to join a meeting of a once-obscure council as they prepare to sign an historic agreement on oil spill repsonse in the far north.

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| Tue May. 14, 2013 1:32 PM PDT

Arkansans to Kerry on Keystone: "Come to Our State to See the Devastation"

Two residents of Mayflower, the site of the March 29 pipeline spill, want Kerry to see the damage in their home state before he approves another massive pipeline.

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| Fri May. 10, 2013 3:01 AM PDT

Republicans Boycott Vote on Obama's EPA Pick

All eight Republicans on the committee skipped a Thursday vote on nominee Gina McCarthy.

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| Thu May. 9, 2013 10:38 AM PDT

Why the Ethanol Boom Means More E. Coli Burgers

The industry's waste is fed to cows, which boosts a particularly gnarly strain of the deadly bug.

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| Thu May. 9, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Biden Said What About Keystone XL Pipeline?!?

An activist says Vice President Biden told her he's anti-pipeline. But the VP's office says not quite.

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| Wed May. 8, 2013 11:32 AM PDT

This Town Took On Fracking and Won

Tiny Dryden, New York, just won the right to send frackers packing.

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| Wed May. 8, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
Polar bear on a remnant ice floe.

10 Key Findings From a Rapidly Acidifying Arctic Ocean

Because of global warming, the Arctic Ocean is turning corrosive faster than any other waters on Earth.

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| Tue May. 7, 2013 3:03 AM PDT

What If We Never Run Out of Oil?

New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle—and a nightmare.

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| Fri May. 3, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
Canada's possible Arctic Ocean route to deliver tar sands oil to Europe and Asia

Canada Considers Shipping Tar Sands Oil Across Arctic Ocean

Stymied by opposition to Keystone XL and similar Canadian pipelines to provinces east and west, Canada thinks about turning north.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 12:33 PM PDT

Fracking Boom in North Dakota Is Here to Stay

A new federal study doubles previous estimates of the Bakken Shale's oil reserves.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 8:05 AM PDT