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Cemeteries A Resting Place For The Dead, Natural Gas

AP | JULIE CARR SMYTH | Posted 09.01.2012 | Business

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Loved ones aren't the only thing buried in the 122-year-old Lowellville Cemetery in eastern Ohio. Deep underground, locked in a...

Climate Change This Week: Extreme Heat, Thunder, and More

Mary Ellen Harte | Posted 07.01.2012 | Green
Mary Ellen Harte

Lately, daily record-high temperatures have been outpacing daily record-lows by 2 to 1, an imbalance expected to grow as climate continues warming.

'Green News Report' - June 28, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.28.2012 | Green
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: Record he...

Morning in America -- Possibly

Edward Goldberg | Posted 08.27.2012 | Business
Edward Goldberg

Is morning coming to America? Possibly, but it also feels very much like Dickens, where it could be the best of times and the worst of times.

'Green News Report' - June 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.26.2012 | Green
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: Summer of...

A Visit With Some Folks in Fracking Land

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.22.2012 | Green
Bill Chameides

If we're going to continue to move forward with fracking, there has to be some mechanism for making the people who get run over by the process whole.

'Green News Report' - June 21, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.21.2012 | Green
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: Good news ...

Sky is Pink: The Best 18-Minute Video Ever Made

Kevin Grandia | Posted 06.21.2012 | Green
Kevin Grandia

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InfoGraphic: $1 Trillion in Global Fossil-Fuel Subsidies

Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 08.21.2012 | Green
Stephen Kretzmann

There is likely more than $1 trilion annually provided for the production and consumption of oil, gas, and coal. That's a lot of money to be wasting and hiding, and it could be put to far better use for education, hunger, poverty, renewable energy, and many many other uses.

'Green News Report' - June 19, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.19.2012 | Green
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: A nuclear...

Citizens Ban Fracking at Ohio Statehouse Rally

Stefanie Penn Spear | Posted 06.19.2012 | Green
Stefanie Penn Spear

Following these environmental leaders' powerful speeches exposing the perils of fracking and the need for immediate action to move beyond fossil fuels, rally participants marched to the Ohio Statehouse and occupied the rotunda.

Matt Sledge

Romney v. Obama: Who Does Ohio Pick To Make The Most Of Oil and Gas Boom?

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 06.14.2012 | Politics

Mitt Romney told a crowd of Ohioans at a manufacturing company Thursday that President Barack Obama is keeping the state's oil and gas industries down...

'Green News Report' - June 14, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.14.2012 | Green
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: Big Oil w...

Frackonomics: Debunking the Financial Myths of Fracking

Robin Madel | Posted 08.12.2012 | New York
Robin Madel

It's easy to get taken in by the industry barkers who make promises that seem so great, but when the potential costs are as great as they are in this instance, taking time to look behind the curtain is essential.

'Green News Report' - June 12, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.12.2012 | Green
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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'Green News Report' - June 7, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.07.2012 | Green
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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The Future of Natural Gas -- An Interview With Raymond Learsy

Daniel J. Graeber | Posted 08.05.2012 | Green
Daniel J. Graeber

Massive natural gas discoveries along with new extraction techniques have led many to claim natural gas as the fuel of the future. Yet why have we seen so many negative publications and reports?

Safe Hydrofracking Is the New Jumbo Shrimp

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 08.04.2012 | Green
Sandra Steingraber

With an insistence on best practices, could drilling and fracking operations be made safe enough to be sited in densely populated communities -- or even sparsely populated communities -- without making the people who live there feel they are living in a war zone?

CO2 Emissions for 2011

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.31.2012 | Green
Bill Chameides

Sobering numbers from the International Energy Agency. IEA's estimates for global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2011 are in. Draw your own conclusions.

Knocking the Wind Out of U.S. Energy Options

Elliott Negin | Posted 01.03.2013 | Green
Elliott Negin

Renewables currently generate only about 5 percent of U.S. electricity, but by 2030 they have the potential to produce more than 40 percent, half coming from wind. And yet, unless Congress acts soon, the wind industry will have to trim its sails.

'Green News Report' - May 22, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.22.2012 | Green
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: Republica...

CO Supreme Court Rules Against Pipeline Company

AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 07.21.2012 | Green

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a Wyoming pipeline company has no right to condemn property in Colorado for a high-pressure ...

How Rural America Got Fracked

Ellen Cantarow | Posted 07.21.2012 | Green
Ellen Cantarow

Food or frac-sand: it's a decision of vital importance across the country, but one most Americans don't even realize is being made -- largely by multinational corporations and dwindling numbers of yeoman farmers in what some in this country would call "the real America."

For Farmers, Fracking Could Mean Salvation-- Or Ruin

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 07.21.2012 | New York

ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riche...

The Climate Post: Stakes High as Negotiators Begin Climate Talks in Germany

Tim Profeta | Posted 07.18.2012 | Green
Tim Profeta

The meeting in Bonn, Germany this week was the first since the 2011 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban where leaders initially agreed to put together a plan that would limit Earth-warming emissions.