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Why Won't Obama Visit North Dakota? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
Amy Harder, National Journal North Dakota is like an overachieving child who attracts the attention of everyone—except Dad.The oil boom taking over western North Dakota and transforming America's ener...
Earthquakes in Texas Caused by Shale Boom? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
Jennifer Hiller, Fuel Fix Earthquakes in the Eagle Ford Shale region "” including a 2011 quake felt in San Antonio "” are likely being triggered by increased oil extraction, according to a new researc...
The Furor Over Fracking in Britain 27 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
Roger Cohen, New York Times The lovely green hills of the High Weald are Tory country, a corner of West Sussex full of affluent residents who commute to London and like their golf and ambles and thatc...
China's Coal Addiction Is Catching Up to It 27 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Gwynn Guilford, Quartz Years of excessive investment are catching up with China, and the latest example is coal. Its reserves now contain 220 million tons (200 million tonnes) of coal, as the Hao Hao ...
The Global Impact of U.S. Shale Boom 27 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Smith and Watson, Denver Post Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and horizontal drilling are allowing the United States to produce more domestic oil and gas, bringing closer the once unthinkable prospe...
Domestic Natural Gas: From Boom to Overkill 27 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
Meghan Foley, USA Today Natural gas was first a boon for domestic energy producers and then an albatross. Hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking', a process that cracks rock deep underground to release oi...
Another Nuclear Power Plant Bites The Dust... 27 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
Reuben Brewer, Fool Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK ) recently decided to stop development on a nuclear facility in Florida and to retire some coal assets. It's looking to build gas plants instead. This is go...
We're Missing Out on Green Coal Opportunities 27 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Todd Tiahrt, Wash Times The sky has no walls. Pollution rides the wind around the entire Earth. Developing countries are trying to mimic America’s affordable and reliable coal power, but without “gree...
Will a Uranium Shortage Nuke American Nuclear? 27 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
EnergyBiz Unlike electric facilities that run on coal and natural gas, nuclear energy plants will never run out of fuel. Indeed the uranium to power those plants is abundant and relatively clean when ...
Green Energy Needs to Be Cheaper 27 Aug 2013 | 05:04 pm
Bjorn Lomborg, Slate According to International Energy Agency data, 13.12 percent of the world's energy came from renewables in 1971, the first year that the IEA reported global statistics. In 2011, r...
