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Obama schools Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘Natural gas means less greenhouse gases’

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This must have been uncomfortable for DiCaprio, having burned thousands of gallons of jet fuel expecting to be feted as a hero By Dave Quast, EnergyInDepth Obama tells Anti-Fracking Celebrity: “Natural gas means less greenhouse gases” and “We’ve got to live in the real world” The wide gap between national Democratic leaders and extremist anti-fracking […]

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NOAA finds oil, gas production not driving global increase in methane emissions

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By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have just released a new study in the journal Nature, which finds – like several previous studies – that microbial sources such as rice paddies and wetlands are the cause of the global increase in methane emissions, not fossil fuel development.

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The Center for Biological Diversity: A litigation factory that doesn’t shoot straight

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California citizens should be outraged by the Center for Biological Diversity’s repeated wasting of their valuable tax dollars By Dave Quast, EnergyInDepth As Energy In Depth has highlighted before, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is an extremist “multimillion dollar litigation factory” that brags about ignoring science and the law in pursuit of its agenda. Its agenda is to use “psychological

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Yet another study finds fracking not responsible for GHG emissions rising

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New study illustrates activists’ focus on oil and gas methane emissions is idealistic agenda, not effort to combat climate change by Seth Whitehead, EnergyInDepth As environmental activists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continue to focus all their attention on methane emissions from oil and natural gas systems, yet another study has been released showing that biogenic

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Activists repackage debunked reports misleading latino communities on health

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Claims laid out in report makes it clear, authors far more interested in garnering headlines than looking at science by Randy Hildreth, EnergyInDepth The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is out today with yet another report – this one claiming that emissions from oil and natural gas development are disproportionately impacting the health of Latino communities.

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Sales tax revenues grow 65% in Utica Shale Counties: EID Report

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Counties with shale development had 65% sales tax revenue boost, while counties without had 37% increase by Jackie Stewart, EnergyInDepth Since Utica Shale development took off in 2011, companies have been investing a tremendous amount of capital in eastern Ohio. Billions of dollars have been spent developing well sites, creating much-needed infrastructure, standing up regional

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Lacking evidence, anti-fracking researchers push foreign studies

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Bottom line: Just because a chemical is present doesn’t mean that it’s present in harmful concentrations By Seth Whitehead, EnergyInDepth Perhaps motivated by the fact that their own research has failed to convincingly tie oil and gas development to reproductive problems, anti-fracking researchers from the University of Missouri recently released a “systemic review” of studies

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State AGs’ ‘Al Gore problem’ revealed in district court hearing today

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#ExxonKnew activist Naomi Oreskes admitted she’s been working closely with Attorney General Schneiderman on his investigation By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth The politics of the #ExxonKnew campaign took center stage in U.S. District Court today as attorneys for Exxon Mobil requested injunctive relief from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s subpoena for company records. Healey’s office

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Unions, landowners speak out against extreme Keep-It-In-The-Ground movement

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All of construction jobs associated with $4 billion invested in natural gas fired power plants, have gone to local union workers By Jackie Stewart, EnergyInDepth Earlier this week, EID published the testimony of a landowner who attended a meeting with the US Forest Service regarding oil and gas leasing in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest, which

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