Fiscal conservatives want Republican leaders to hold firm against proposals to extend a wind energy tax credit this year.
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Posted on November 3, 2014 at 6:49 am by Associated Press in
Environment,
featured,
Pipelines |
The number of oil spilled is up 21,000 gallons from initial estimates.
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Posted on November 3, 2014 at 5:46 am by Bloomberg in
Environment |
The world can only consume a fraction of the known deposits of fossil fuels if it’s to avoid the most dangerous impacts from climate change.
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Posted on October 30, 2014 at 10:23 am by Associated Press in
Accidents,
Environment |
The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice say the consent decree was filed Wednesday.
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Posted on October 29, 2014 at 5:09 pm by Maribel Molina in
Environment,
General,
Politics/Policy |
Respondents to a University of Texas at Austin poll has shown that Americans’ opinions on energy and the environment vary drastically depending on how old they are.
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Posted on October 29, 2014 at 1:53 pm by Associated Press in
Coal,
Environment |
Murray Energy Corp., a privately held company with a dozen mines in Illinois and five other states, is among the nation’s most vocal coal producers.
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Posted on October 27, 2014 at 2:38 pm by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in
Environment,
featured,
General |
New research is shedding more light on the fate of the crude that gushed out of BP’s failed Macondo well in 2010.
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Posted on October 24, 2014 at 7:08 am by Associated Press in
Environment,
Europe,
Politics/Policy |
The decision makes the EU the first major economy to set post-2020 emissions targets ahead of a global climate pact that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris.
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Posted on October 23, 2014 at 7:32 pm by Ryan Holeywell in
Environment,
Natural gas,
Politics/Policy |
The Environmental Defense Fund says some major oil companies are taking steps to reduce leaks of the greenhouse gas methane, the main component of natural gas, but that hundreds of smaller companies aren’t.
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Posted on October 21, 2014 at 6:01 pm by FuelFix.com in
Environment,
featured,
Technology,
Texas
Austin-based Skyonic Inc. debuted its $125 million carbon capture plant on Tuesday.
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The EPA and the Interior Department are considering a combination of regulations that would rein in methane, a power heat-trapping greenhouse gas.
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Posted on October 15, 2014 at 2:24 pm by Associated Press in
Environment,
featured,
Natural gas
Cheap and plentiful natural gas isn’t quite a bridge to a brighter energy future as claimed and won’t slow global warming, a new study projects.
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