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Hydraulic Fracturing, Waterworld and the Toxic Avenger

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Fracking Fluid, Gasland. Environment, Halliburton Loophole, Fracking Safety, Fracking, Green News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Fracking Water, Sustainability, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Who could forget Kevin Costner's best flick of all time, Waterworld. Melting polar ice caps, mutants, resource-wars, it had it all for those into pos...

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Gulf Awash In 27,000 Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells

AP | JEFF DONN and MITCH WEISS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Gas Wells, BP Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Abandoned Well, Green News, Oil, Oil Wells, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Well, Abandoned Wells, Natural Gas, Green News

Leading environmental groups and a U.S. senator on Wednesday called on the government to pay closer attention to more than 27,000 abandoned oil and ga...

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Watch out for hydraulic fracturing it might make your hair orange

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Environment, Fracking Fluid, Fracking Safety, Fracking, Green News, Scoma Family, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Sustainability, Fracking Water, Chesapeake Energy, Green News
Kevin Grandia

When you have lived in the same place for 20 years and all of sudden your hair turns orange after you wash it, you might be more than a little concern...

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Don't Drink the Water: When Lax Regulation Meets Dirty Fuels

Peter Lehner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Tar-Sands-Oil, Canada Tar Sands, Alberta Tar Sands, Oil Industry, Fracking, Dimock, Regulation, Natural Gas, Clean Energy, Hydraulic Fracturing, Dirty Fuels, Green News
Peter Lehner

As long as we rely on risky fuels like tar sands oil, keeping our communities safe will be an uphill slog. The safest path is to reduce our dependence on these fuels and shift to cleaner alternatives.

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Green News Report: July 1, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Bp, 4th of July, Hurricanes, Carbon Emissions, Oil Spill Response, Waterkeeper Alliance, Royalties, Native Americans, Clean Energy, Robert Byrd, Subsidies, Green News Report, Arctic, Dengue Fever, Energy Efficiency, American Power Act, Fossil Fuels, BRAD BLOG, Water, John Kerry, Green News, Sustainability, Climate Change, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Fisker Automotive, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Elena Kagan, Solar Power, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: BP Disaster n...

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The Counterintuitive World of Electricity Economics and Carbon

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Energy, Ferc, Doe, Carbon Emissions, Utility Costs, Natural Gas, Climate Change, Coal, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Politics News
Gary Liberson, PhD

States with concentrations of coal production will keep producing and keep driving higher prices.

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What the Frack: Is Pumping Glass Cleaner Into the Earth Okay?

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Fracking Water, Frackin, Gasland. Environment, Sustainability, Bill Barret Corporation, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking Fluid, Fracking Safety, Natural Gas, Green News
Kevin Grandia

While the natural gas companies might think hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") is great for their bottom line, the process involves pumping thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals down into the earth.

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T. Boone Pickens: Climate Change Bill Is Coming, 'It's Too Important For The Security Of America' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Milken Institute, Obama Climate Bill, T. Boone Pickens, Natural Gas Tax Credits, Milken Institute's Global Confernce, Natural Gas, Climate Change, Natural Gas Act, Climate Change Bill, Pickens Plan, Boone Pickens, Business News

T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil investor and, more recently, a devout champion of ending America's reliance on fossil fuels, said on Tuesday that ...

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Senate Climate Bill Will Come Before Immigration Bill, Says Harry Reid

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Wind Power, House, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Senate, Lindsey Graham, Climate Bill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Immigration Bill, Nuclear Power, Natural Gas, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he is willing to bring up climate change legislation ahead of an immigration bill, a...

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Chaos, Chaos Theory, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Butterfly Effect, Niger Delta, Brazil, Bp, Quantum Physics, Habits, Living News, Words, Rome, Green Living, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, Destiny, Possible Worlds, Living, Philosophers, Cicero, Values, Actions, World, World News, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Macondo, Thermohaline Circulation, International Maritime Organization, Microcosm, Ireland, Spain, Canada, Environmental Protection Agency, Norway, Germany, Solar System, Climate, Stock Market, Weather, Black Swan, New York, Nacr, Edge of Chaos, South Korea, Macrocosm, Oceans, Atomic Age, Great Ocean Conveyor, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, United Nations, Computer Simulation, Methane, Deterministic Chaos, Eu, Climate Change, Sweden, New York Academy of Sciences, European Commission, Mexico, Edward Lorenz, Environment, Europe, Father of Chaos Theory, Civilization, Non-Linear Systems, Dynamical Systems, 21st Century, Hermetic Axiom, Hermes, Poll, Gulf Oil Spill, Green, Green Energy, Energy, Natural Gas, India, g20, China, G20 Summit, Oil Drilling, Big Oil, Peak Oil, Oil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Green News
DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

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Weekly Mulch: As risks for oil and gas grow, USSF offers change

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: New York, Bp, Fracking, HD Mountains, Gasland, Gas Drilling, Epa, Halliburton Loophole, Ussf, Cabot Oil and Gas, Urban Farms, The Nation, Deepwater Oil Drilling, Sustainibility, Sierra Club, Pennsylvania, Colroado, Earthjustice, Regulaiton, Josh Fox, Dimock, Deepwater Horizon, Hydrofracking, Community Gardens, Blm, Natural Gas, Detroit, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger BP oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for more than two months, and while attention has focused t...

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The Myth of the Russia Reset

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Energy, Russia, Human Rights, Barack Obama, United States, Vladimir Putin, Washington DC, Natural Gas, Democracy, Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev, Silicon Valley, World News
Robert Amsterdam

The warm welcome of Medvedev by Obama served a clear domestic political purpose: the administration is parading Medvedev as a foreign policy success story. That perception depends on whom you are talking to.

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HBO Documentary: It's a Gas

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Water Quality, Josh Fox, Gasland, Energy, Fracking, Water Pollution, Fossil Fuels, Water, Environmentalism and Film, Hydrofracking, Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Movie Trailer, Green News
Bill Chameides

On Monday night I watched a fascinating and disturbing documentary. Gasland chronicles the experience of filmmaker Josh Fox as he travels the nation, discovering and chronicling the ugly side of hydraulic fracturing.

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When Buying a Grill, Understanding the Thermodynamics of Cooking is Crucial

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Charcoal Grills, Briquettes, Memorial Day, Barbecue, Pellet Grills, Lump Charcoal, Gas Grills, Grill, Memorial Day Food, Convection, Cooking, Bbq, Infrared, Memorial Day Recipes, Food, Wood Pellets, Grilling, Natural Gas, Radiant Heat, Charcoal, Charcoal Briquets, Conduction, Propane, Home News
Meathead

An outdoor grill may seem simple, but it is actually a complex cooking tool, and understanding how it works is crucial to making great food outdoors, and a necessity before handing your credit card to the clerk.

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Tougher Rules On Natural Gas Drilling In NY Watersheds

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Natural Gas Drilling Limits, Natural Gas Drilling, New York City Watershed, Natural Gas, New York City, New York, Natural Gas Drilling Regulations, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — New regulations announced Friday for natural gas drilling in the New York City and Syracuse watersheds will create a bureaucratic...

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Russia Uses Energy As Foreign Policy By Cutting Belarus Gas Supply

csmonitor.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Energy, Russia, Gas Supply, Alexander Lukashenko, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Natural Gas, Belarus, Moscow, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Minsk, Gazprom, Foreign Policy, World News

Russia began shutting off gas supplies to its neighbor Belarus on Monday, in an energy dispute with familiar political undertones....

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"Gasland" Documentary Shows Water That Burns, Toxic Effects Of Natural Gas Drilling (VIDEO)

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Josh Fox, Sundance Film Festival, Fracking, Hbo, Gasland, Clean Energy, Wyoming, Pollution, Green Energy, Colorado, Dick Cheney, Natural Gass Leases, Video, Pennsylvania, Contamination, Water, Wells, Natural Gas, Green News

MILANVILLE, Pa. (AP)-- What do you do when a gas company offers nearly $100,000 for the right to drill on your land? If you're Josh Fox, you refuse...

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Holy Gas Seep, Batman

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Natural Resources, Louisiana, Water Pollution, Fossil Fuels, Caddo Parish, Water, Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York, Kern Valley State Prison Water Quality, Natural Gas, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with www.theGreenGrok.While the world watches a volcano plume, Louisianans in Caddo Parish are fleeing a gas seep. Technological Advances ...

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Colorado Natural Gas Law:

AP | COLLEEN SLEVIN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: America's Natural Gas Alliance, Coal, Natural Gas, Colorado, Xcel, Environmental Colorado, Bill Ritter, Denver News

DENVER — Colorado is pushing its largest utility toward using more natural gas to cut power plant emissions in the Denver area under a new law b...

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Empowering the Planet - An Earth Day Overview

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Solar, Fossil Fuels, Earth Day, Nuclear Power, Wind, Carbon Free, Wind Energy, Natural Gas, Climate Change, Caltech, Coal, Solar Power, Green News
James M. Gentile

Leaving climate change aside, is reliance on fossil and nuclear fuels in an era of skyrocketing demand a workable, long-term, energy policy for the United States and the world?

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Weekly Mulch: Can Washington Stand Up to the Energy Industry?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Prudhoe Bay, Tony Hayward, Congress, Alaska, Chevron, Bp, Salt Lake City, Texas, Obama, Colorado, Escrow Fund, Elmer's Island, Oil Industry, Mother Jones, Washington, Joe Barton, Utah, Natural Gas, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders spent this week trying to stand up to the oil industry. In ...

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Green News Report -- April 13, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Glaciers, Australia, Factory Farms, Chinese Drywall, Fda, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Shipping, Msha, West Virginia Mine Explosion, Louisiana, Oil Spill, Don Blankenship, Big Oil, Glacier National Park, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Global Warming, Massey Energy, Chickens, Big Coal, Wind Energy, Great Barrier Reef, Climate Change Legislation, Geoengineering, Hilda Solis, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Oil, Green News, Natural Gas, Chamber of Commerce, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unfccc, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Are we gonna ...

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Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Spill Stalls Climate Bill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Sen. Lindsey Graham, Ira Leifer, Democracy Now!, Tpmmuckraker, Congress, Pentagon, Bp, Fracking, Yvo De Boer, Obama, IPS News, Jelly Fish, Beaches Oil, Pew Environmental, Oil Spill, Climate Change, Deepwater Horizon, Tuna, Climate Bill, Copenhagen, Natural Gas, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger "There's a dead dolphin on this beach," Mother Jones' Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It's one...

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Surprising Gas Rig Tour

Adele Israel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: H & P Flex Rig, Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, Sustainability, Parachute-Colorado, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, Williams, Garfield County, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Rulison Field, Piceance Basin, Ngls, Denver News
Adele Israel

Catching up with the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce Rig Tour on May 25, I braced myself for a loud, assaultive experience.

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Green News Report -- June 10, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Bp, Fracking, Nuclear Power, Epa, Lindsey Graham, Green News Report, Gulf Oil Spill, Coal, Lisa Murkowski, Senate, BRAD BLOG, Fossil Fuels, Kevin Costner, Electric Cars, Oil, Green News, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Coal Mining, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Even more of t...

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