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One action that could slow both the deficit and climate change
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Beyond that mention at the Republican Convention when Mitt Romney won a laugh quipping that President Obama had promised to keep the oceans from rising, it’s...
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The ‘sad green story’ is a fantasy; green energy is growing
Andrew Winston (Note: This blog is co-authored with my colleague Jigar Shah, a partner at Inerjys and a board member of the Carbon War Room, where he served as its first CEO. Jigar also founded...
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New Yorkers Against Fracking will hold a series of vigils
From Green Right Now Reports New Yorkers Against Fracking will be holding vigils in several communities this week, stretching from Brooklyn to Syracuse and several other cities. The coalition is urging...
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Another flaming water well (in North Texas) ignites more fracking controversy
Weatherford resident Steve Lipsky demonstrates his flaming water hose. The EPA apparently caved to gas industry pressure by dropping a case involving a gas-tainted water well in Weatherford, Texas,...
View ArticleFossil fuel industry gets a boost from solar power
The Associated Press reports that oil and natural gas companies are using more solar power to provide electricity to power remote monitoring stations after the hydraulic fracturing crews have left.
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Obama unveils climate policy: Don’t fear the future, seize it
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now President Barack Obama delivered a pointed speech on climate change today, which suggested that the Keystone XL pipeline will not be automatically approved and...
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Gasland II: America’s fracking nightmare and somnambulent energy policy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now One of the talking points that has convinced Americans to look politely away from the muck and dirty water while the oil and gas industry fracks tens of thousands of...
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Distant earthquakes are triggering tremors at waste-injection sites in the...
From Green Right Now Reports Earthquake that damaged Prague, OK, in 2010 may have been triggered by the Chilean earthquake months earlier. In a weird twist of global interconnectedness that only...
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Harmful levels of arsenic and selenium found in water near gas fracking...
From Green Right Now Reports Texas researchers have found elevated levels of arsenic and selenium in drinking water near gas drilling sites in the Barnett Shale, according to a peer-reviewed study...
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Water shortages pit ranchers against frackers in Texas
From Green Right Now Reports Texas Long Horn (Photo: Wikimedia) A visit to West Texas will invariably take you by two common sites, oil and natural gas wells and pastures where Texas’ iconic longhorn...
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DOE Secretary Moniz explains the “all of the above” energy plan and defends...
Green Right Now Reports In his first major policy address since taking over at the Department of Energy, Dr. Ernest J. Moniz sought to explain the administration’s “all of the above” energy plan and...
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Fracking threatens water supplies in several states; Texas is ‘ground zero,’...
Green Right Now Reports This map cut out shows the intensively drilled Permian Basin in Texas (wells in black) which overlays the Ogallala Aquifer (in red). The Ogallala, a major source of drinking and...
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