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Shell's Pullout From Arctic Casts Doubts on Future of American Fossil Fuel Investing
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant announced a sweeping strategic overhaul that suspends its Alaskan drilling program, and admits it jumped "too quickly" into fracking exploration in the U.S.
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Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
U.S. Energy Information Administration maps show landscapes so densely veined by gas pipelines – more than 350,000 miles of them run through the country – that they look like smashed windshields. The methane madness has to stop.
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As British Public Shuns Fracking, Many See a Turn Toward Tidal Energy
Both the economic and ecological arguments against fracking undermine the government’s goal of igniting a "British Shale Gas revolution" – especially with forecasts projecting tidal energy to become a £6 billion industry that creates 19,000 jobs.
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Besides West Virginia, Oil and Gas Drilling Links to Water Pollution in 3 States
Pennsylvania has confirmed at least 106 water-well contamination cases from its more than 5,000 new fracking wells. Texas registered more than 2,000 contamination complaints, while 122 were filed in West Virginia and 190 in Ohio.
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Terror Charges Faced By Oklahoma Fossil Fuel Protesters "Outrageous"
The terror charges facing two environmental protesters who unfurled a banner and dropped glitter at an oil and gas company's office in Oklahoma are outrageous and egregious, their lawyer says.
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Judge: Exxon Faces Criminal Charges For 50,000 Gallon Frack Waste Spill
A recent ruling in Pennsylvania means the eight charges against Exxon subsidiary XTO Energy – including violations of both Pennsylvania's Clean Streams Law and the Solid Waste Management Act – could be felony offenses.
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Appalachia Needs Regeneration and New Energy Solutions, Not Christmas Nostalgia
A retired coal miner in eastern Kentucky recently sent me an early Christmas card warning. “Whatever you do,” he wrote, “I prefer dirty coal from Santa Claus instead of the annual drivel of ‘Christmas in Appalachia’ pity.”
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More Than 15 Million Americans Now Live Within 1 Mile Of a Fracking Well
A recent Reuters analysis uncovered the unsettling trend of home developers keeping the rights to oil and gas reserves under the houses they sell — in many cases without notifying the homes’ buyers outright, then leasing the land to fracking companies.
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88% of Congress On Gas Industry Payroll As Campaign Donations Hit Record Level
A new report shows politicians' campaign cash from the natural gas industry has soared 231% in states that frack, and more than doubled even in the states that don't. Fact: seven of eight U.S. Congress members are on the gas industry's payroll.
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Revealed: ALEC Seeks Legislation to Punish Solar Power Users as "Freeriders"
The alliance of corporations and ultra-right activists known as the American Legislative Exchange Council is attempting to penalize homeowners who install solar panels on their houses and to block clean energy developments across the U.S.
