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UK CO2 emissions up 4.5% in 2012
Huge jump in coal use in power stations prompts rise
• Scotland renewables production hits record levels
North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Both Prosperity and Damage
North Dakota is pumping more than 575,000 barrels of oil a day now, reinvigorating North Dakota’s once-stagnant economy and reversing a population decline. But growth has come at a cost.
New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years
A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale.
ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules
ALEC says the model disclosure legislation is designed to promote “responsible resource production” and “aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations.”
Will Federal Rules to Disclose Fracking Chemicals Come with Exceptions?
by Lena Groeger, ProPublica Last week several media outlets obtained the federal Bureau of Land Management’s draft of proposed rules requiring fracking companies to disclose the chemicals they pump into the ground. Such disclosure requirements have been championed by environmentalists for years and were endorsed by President Obama in the State of the Union, but [...]
