The California Senate has rejected a fracking bill that seems like common sense: Under Pavley's bill, oil companies would be required to give 30 days notice to land owners whose property line or residence is within 300 feet of a fracking operation. The firms would...
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Eric Lipton's feature on the decline of coal in Kentucky is interesting, though flawed. He tells a heartbreaking story for these coal miners, helping us understand just how deeply people.
Glenn Hurowitz has an important piece at Think Progress noting that Obama's decision on whether palm oil should be included in the Renewable Fuel Standard will be the most important.
I maintain that rising gas prices are the biggest threat to Obama's reelection. New polling by the Washington Post suggests this is probably correct. I do think that, no matter how high gas prices go up, Obama will have plenty of ability to fight back...
A report released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources links earthquakes in the Youngstown area to fracking. Fracking supporters continue to talk of the practice as safe, but the.
Good Washington Post piece on the dilemma Ohio faces over fracking. People really want jobs. Cities like Canton, Youngstown, and Toledo are suffering. Long-term deindustrialization exacerbated by factory closures since.
The Texas Railroad Commission, for reasons that I assume have to do with keeping an antiquated state agency relevant, regulates energy policy for the Lone Star State. The TRC met with President Obama recently.* What kind of quality energy policy advice did our Texan friends...
I have a piece out today at Alternet detailing the struggle to protect some of the United States' most beautiful and unique landscapes from the scourge of dirty energy production..
Leo Hickman has a nice little piece of investigative journalism in the Guardian about how a right-wing climate myth gets born and spread. In short, a scientist working on whether.
Josh Fox, the maker of the documentary Gasland and whom one might call today's Ida Tarbell, was arrested today at the order of House Republicans during a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Why? They tried to film it. Open government at...
If there's one thing more frustrating to environmentalists than the reluctance of the government to subsidize clean energy production, I don't know what it is. Not only is it central.
Colorado is reaching a bit of an odd moment in the short history of renewable energy in this county. In 2004, Colorado voters decided to create a sustainable energy requirement.