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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - May 23, 2013

2013-05-23T21:54:24Z

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Marcelo Giugale: How Green Should Economic Growth Be?

2013-05-23T16:15:13Z

Well before one gets to extreme dilemmas, there is a lot that can be done -- based on common sense -- to make growth greener without making it slower. There are win-wins.

Read more: Gas, Commodities, Poverty, Carbon Emissions, Fracking, Economic Development, Oil, Climate Change, Green Living, Consumption, Minerals, Economic Growth, Global Warming, World News

Jeff Biggers: Who Speaks for Illinois on Fracking? Dr. Sandra Steingraber or Sierra Club, Compromising Environmental Groups?

2013-05-22T18:56:42Z

Before environmental lobbyists and legislators push a hydraulic fracking bill through the Illinois legislature, they need to sit down with farmers in Clinton County and learn how well regulations defended their water, farms and cankered lives from the contamination of coal slurry.

Read more: Illinois Politics, Sierra Club, New York, Fracking, Big Coal, Chicago, Gasland, Josh Fox, Jack Darin, Sandra Steingraber, Gov. Pat Quinn, Video, Green News

Henry Henderson: Illinois Fracking Update

2013-05-21T18:20:12Z

With almost no laws in place to protect the public from the known -- and very scary -- dangers associated with the controversial oil and gas extraction technology, communities across Illinois are in harm's way.

Read more: Illinois General Assembly, Hydrofracking, Natural Resources Defense Council, Fracking, Illinois Fracking, Nrdc, Chicago News

Kassie Siegel: 5 Fatal Flaws in President Obama's New Fracking Regulations

2013-05-21T17:57:55Z

If the Obama Administration wants to provide any real protection for our air, water and climate, Secretary Jewell should withdraw these regulations a second time and go back to the drawing board.

Read more: Public Lands, Fracking, Sally Jewell, Hydrofracking, Bureau of Land Management, Climate Change, Hydraulic Fracturing, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Green News

Steve Horn: Gasland 2 Grassroots Premiere in Illinois Highlights Industry PSYOPS and Ongoing Fracking Fights

2013-05-21T17:14:39Z

Gasland 2 screened yesterday in Normal, IL and DeSmogBlog was there to gain a sneak peak of the documentary set for a July 8 HBO national premiere.

Read more: Fracking, Gasland 2, Hydraulic Fracturing, Illinois, Gasland 2 Premiere, Natural Gas, Gasland, Green News

Brendan DeMelle: Frackalypse Now: Mark Fiore Spoofs Oil Industry's PSYOPS Campaign to Derail Fracking 'Insurgency'

2013-05-21T14:52:51Z

DeSmogBlog partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apo...

Read more: Psyops, Mark Fiore, Video, Fracking, Range Resources, Natural Gas, DeSmog Blog, Anadarko, Green News

Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: SheerWind, Damation, and More!

2013-05-20T15:36:20Z

We're At 400 PPM - Last Time THAT Happened, the Arctic was 14oF Warmer, says a new study, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress, indicating the planet ...

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Controversial Fracking Documentary To Air On AXS TV

2013-05-20T13:46:11Z

Mark Cuban's AXS TV has announced it will air the controversial "pro-fracking" documentary FrackNation the night after HBO premieres Gasland 2, Josh F...

Read more: Josh Fox, Mark Cuban Axs Tv, Fracknation Axs, Axs Tv, Mark Cuban, Fracking, Phelim McAleer, Fracking Documentary, Hbo, Gasland, Fracknation Axs Tv, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracknation, Josh Fox Gasland, Gasland 2, Green News

Steve Horn: Friday Trash Dump: Obama DOE Approves Second Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal

2013-05-20T11:26:37Z

Given the myriad ties that bind, it's tough to fathom any other decision being made by the DOE on Freeport or any other LNG export terminal from here on out. And the ecological consequences of that will be disastrous.

Read more: Natural Gas Exports, Doe, Fracking, Conocophillips, Department of Energy, Hydraulic Fracturing, Freeport LNG, Shale Gas, Barack Obama, Shale Gas Exports, Obama Administration, Unconventional Gas, Sabine Pass, Green News

The New York Public Library: The Big Story That Happened In His Backyard

2013-05-20T10:05:40Z

Journalist Renowned for his Coverage of Fracking Discusses His Book, Which Is Nominated For Prestigious NYPL Award.

By ANGELA MONTEFINISE

When veter...

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Will California Ban Fracking?

2013-05-17T20:47:44Z

SAN FRANCISCO -- Efforts to put the brakes on the practice of hydraulic fracturing, often called "fracking," took a step forward in California earlier...

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New Fracking Rules Spark Controversy Among State Officials

2013-05-17T13:37:08Z

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming officials worry that Interior Department rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land might unnecessarily duplicate ...

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Tim Profeta: The Climate Post: Carbon Dioxide Milestone Revised by NOAA

2013-05-17T10:48:56Z

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced last week that carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii surpassed the milestone 400 parts per million for a sustained period.

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Interior Issues New Fracking Rule

2013-05-16T15:31:57Z

WASHINGTON -- Companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands will be required to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic frac...

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Richard Schiffman: New Yorkers Reject Fracking One Town at a Time

2013-05-15T14:57:34Z

New Yorkers worried about fracking have been looking at the impact it has had on their neighbors in Pennsylvania. Increasingly, they don't like what they see there.

Read more: Marcellus Shale, Ed Rendell, Andrew Cuomo, Pennsylvania, Fracking, Environment, Natural Gas, New York, New York News

Steve Horn: Faulkner County: ExxonMobil's "Sacrifice Zone" for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking

2013-05-15T13:15:12Z

Dozens of fracking waste injection-caused earthquakes have occurred in Faulkner County, with 12 small quakes in a five-day period back in October 2010, another ten quakes in a single day in November 2010 and a sizeable 4.7 magnitude quake shaking things up in February 2011.

Read more: Tar Sands, Pegasus Pipeline, Arkansas Oil Spill, Fracking, Mayflower, Earthquakes, Arkansas, Exxonmobil, Hydraulic Fracturing, Xto Energy, Fayetteville Shale, Green News

Curtis Ellis: Obama's Economic Vision: The U.S. as a Third World Nation

2013-05-14T21:21:41Z

It's no surprise an administration as tied to Wall Street as this one is taking the side of the financial sector. But it's even worse: If the administration has its way, neither Congress nor any government official, elected or appointed, would have any say in the matter.

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Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: Acid Arctic, Hot Mama Nature, and More!

2013-05-13T11:45:54Z

By 2050, California & Southwest Could Have 100% Dry Years NASA Says, reports Climate Progress, according to a NASA analysis, which basically lays out ...

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Jacob Devaney: Teacher and Principal Pressured to Resign Over Students' Presentation About Fracking

2013-05-13T07:52:15Z

Some are calling it "liberal indoctrinationm" others calling it "censorship," a teacher has resigned, and what started out as a simple presentation by 13-year-old Xiuhtezcatl and his 9-year-old brother Itzcuauhtl has turned into a national story.

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Natural Gas Export Plans Stir Debate

2013-05-13T08:06:24Z

WASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. produce...

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Biden: We'd Be More Agressive On Emissions 'If We Had A Different Congress'

2013-05-11T15:04:24Z

"We've been dealing with a Congress where a significant portion of the other party thinks there's no such thing as global warming," according to Vice ...

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Fracking's Threat To U.S. Water Resources

2013-05-09T11:50:47Z

From Mother Nature Network's John Platt:

The natural gas extraction technique known as fracking uses so much water that it could threaten groundwat...

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Steve Horn: Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble

2013-05-08T18:28:53Z

The well production data that Powers picked through on a state-by-state basis demonstrates a "drilling treadmill." That means each time an area is fracked, after the frackers find the "sweet spot," that area yields diminishing returns on gas production on a monthly and annual basis.

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Kyle Ash: Accounting Trick on Methane Is Deadly for the Climate

2013-05-08T18:08:11Z

Politicians use accounting tricks to make us think their paltry efforts are worth a damn. For one, they dilute the annual impact of climate pollution by spreading it over 100 years. If we don't make serious progress within the decade, however, what we do afterward will be moot.

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