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Corporate Tax Loopholes Cost Colorado Billions -- Let's Close Them

Joel Judd | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Joel Judd

We are faced with cutting mental health programs, raising tuition, cutting medical services for the poor. Yet we seem to have plenty of dough for corporate welfare that simply does not work.

Fracking Proves Dangerous In Pennsylvania Case

David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

ProPublica Monday reported environmental officials were scrambling to clean up 8,000 gallons of a "potential carcinogen" manufactured by Halliburton a...

Clan Politics Unite Caracas, Moscow, and Tehran

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Robert Amsterdam

Nearly all analyses of important international relationships, whether internal or external, see the countries' systems through a prism that hides the power of clans and cabals.

Natural Gas Lobby Steps Into Climate Change Negotiations

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Producers of natural gas are readying a lobbying effort before a climate change bill goes before the Senate this fall, reports the Dallas Morning News...

News Flash - All Fuels Have Indirect Effects

Bob Dinneen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bob Dinneen

No credible research can conclude that ethanol production in the U.S. is the driving force behind deforestation and other land use changes in other sovereign nations.

Western Slope Politicians Squabble After Poll Shows Support For FRAC-act

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Gary Harmon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Voters in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District a month ago favored legislation that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate hyd...

Chairman of Gazprom Predicts $100 Oil Because of Speculation. Speculation, Really?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Raymond J. Learsy

"Manipulation" is immeasurably more sinister than "Speculation." It bespeaks of controlling, orchestrating and maneuvering to falsify and rig.

Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell To Develop World's Largest Gas Field

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

CANBERRA, Australia — Energy giant Chevron announced on Monday that the Gorgon gas field, one of the world's largest, will be developed off nort...

Natural Gas is Central to "Clean Cities"

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
T. Boone Pickens

The Department of Energy's awards last week are a big step in the right direction to demonstrate how simple it will be to provide fueling facilities for heavy trucks and fleets.

Natural Gas Hits A Roadblock In Energy Bill: Coal Lobby

The New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants -- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ...

Water Contamination In Wyoming Could Be From Natural Gas Drilling

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination [1] near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three...

Should Greens Ally With Natural Gas Against Coal?

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
David Roberts

Is the enemy of our enemy our friend? Is it worthwhile to ally with the natgas industry to reduce the influence of coal and strengthen the climate bill?

T. Boone: Why Not Get Inventive?

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
A. Siegel

T. Boone Pickens has been spending millions (actually, tens of millions) to promote The Pickens' Plan, which is a fundamentally flawed concept that could nail the coffin shut on America's future.

King Coal

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The giant advantage of a quick conversion from coal to gas is the quickest route for jumpstarting our economy and saving our planet.

American People Win 393-35

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
T. Boone Pickens

A lopsided vote like 393-35 is further evidence that members of Congress recognize the tremendous benefits of natural gas: it's clean, it's abundant, and, most importantly, it's American.

It's Time To Defend Climate Change Bill

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Trip Van Noppen

We must speak up and convince our senators that effective legislation cannot give coal a free pass and put this bill's effectiveness in jeopardy.

Palin's Cap-and-Trade Is Alaska's Bait-and-Switch

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Shannyn Moore

During the debates when Gwen Ifill asked, "Do you support capping carbon emissions?" Palin responded, "I do. I do." What or whom changed Sarah Palin's mind about cap-and-trade?

Sarah Palin's Pipeline: What Will Happen To It?

nytimes.com | Stefan Milkowski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

In the wake of Sarah Palin's surprise announcement to step down as Alaska governor, questions linger over her signature energy initiative: the constru...

Now Is The Time: Pass the NAT GAS Act

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
T. Boone Pickens

The NAT GAS Act is the only way I know to quickly and effectively reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It will also save consumers thousands of dollars on fuel costs and protect our environment.

EIA: US Emissions Diving More Than 4% in 2009

Dennis Markatos | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Dennis Markatos

US greenhouse gas emissions are falling quickly in 2009 and bringing us within close reach (a few years) of 1990 levels.

Taking Back Energy Future with Natural Gas

Michael J. Newport | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Michael J. Newport

What's an environmentally responsible source of clean energy that is available in America today that can eliminate our dependence on foreign oil? It's natural gas.

The Human Toll of Fossil Fuel Use

Dennis Markatos | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Dennis Markatos

Reduced emissions are not the only benefit to renewable energy. Another stark difference between fossil energy and renewable energy is the risk to workers close to the fuel from the mine to the point of use.

The Simple Arithmetic of Global Warming Supports the Economics of a Climate Change Bill

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
David Fiderer

One of the great ironies of our age is that skepticism of global warming is treated with greater respect than, say, Holocaust denial.

Calling It Like I See It

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
T. Boone Pickens

Do you think the U.S. can afford to spend half a trillion dollars on imported oil? I sure don't. Yet that's how much we spent in 2008.

China's Burma Oil, Gas Pipeline To Begin

TNN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

China begins lying a gigantic 1,100 km long gas and oil pipeline to Myanmar in September; the official media said a day before the visit of Burmese l...