May 2015

Republicans confront Obama over global warming, EPA rules

Obama fighting GOP-dominated Congress over his environmental legacy The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than 117 million people in the country. Not so, insist Republicans. They say the rule is a massive government overreach that could even subject puddles and ditches […]

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Barnett Shale fracked gas wells tested, no harmful emissions

Beacon E&P tested 5 Barnett Shale fracked wells, compared against baseline testing from 2012 A battery of air tests during the simultaneous hydraulic fracturing of five Barnett Shale natural gas wells and the subsequent initial flowback period is one of the largest scale air testing projects of its kind. Modern Geosciences, a respected environmental testing

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American coal facing tough competition from shale natural gas

American coal companies partly blame Environmental Protection Agency for their woes American coal producers expect declining production and plenty of job losses as their product is battered by the shale revolution in states like Texas, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. West Virginia University researchers predict that state coal production will drop 39 per cent compared with the industry’s last

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Renewable energy revolution? More like a crawl

Energy transitions are slow and create own technical, economic and social challenges America in 2015 finds itself almost in a new energy reality. It recently became the world’s second–largest extractor of crude oil, and since 2010 has been the leading producer of natural gas, whose abundant and inexpensive supply has been accelerating the retreat from coal as a national source of electric power.  Some see this as

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Natural gas revolution sparks rapid American industrial consumption

Industrial use of natural gas use feedstock growing by 3% annually Thanks to the shale revolution, cheap natural gas is igniting an explosive growth in American industry, which is the fastest growing consumer of natural gas, according to the US Energy Information Administration. A large portion of both consumption and anticipated growth is in the

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