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TN MOVING STORIES: Boeing Delivers New Plane, Atlanta's Transpo System Needs...
Top stories on TN:FEMA disaster reimbursements -- on hold due to Congressional inaction -- are affecting Montana residents hit hard by flooding. (Link)Obama administration officials continue to push...
View ArticleState Needs to Focus More on Health Effects of Fracking, MDs Say
More than 250 physicians and medical professionals have signed a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo requesting the state devote more study to the health impacts of hydraulic fracturing before issuing...
View ArticleState Environment Chief In Hot Seat Over Fracking
Department of Environmental Conservation Chief Joseph Martens submitted to nearly three hours of intense questioning by members of a New York State Assembly committee on an issue that has inflamed...
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Houston to Get Free Downtown Shuttle After Six-Year Gap
(Photo courtesy of Houston Downtown Management District)Many cities offer free shuttles to help people move around their downtown areas. Fort Worth, Texas has "Molly the Trolley" which takes visitors...
View ArticleEPA to Establish Rules For Fracking Wastewater
The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it will, for the first time, set national standards for disposal of the toxin-laden wastewater that results from hydraulic fracturing,...
View ArticleDisagreement Over How Much Gas, Employment Fracking Would Bring to NY
Tonight, New York State regulators will hold the first of four public hearings on the Cuomo administration’s proposal to permit and regulate the natural gas drilling technique called high-volume...
View ArticleLong Lines Expected as Fracking Hearings Come to Manhattan
Thousands are expected to attend public hearings this week in Manhattan and the Catskills, on the controversial subject of hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking. Last summer, the Cuomo...
View ArticleAt City Frack Hearing, New Questions About Quake Danger
The Bloomberg administration is poised Wednesday to express concern about Albany's plans to allow natural gas drilling near upstate reservoirs during a public hearing in Manhattan on the controversial...
View ArticleCity Says Fracking May Compromise Water Supply
Hundreds of anti-hydraulic fracturing activists rallied outside the Tribeca Performing Arts Center to protest the drilling technique they see as a serious public health hazard. Inside the hearings, a...
View ArticleEPA Says Fracking May Cause Pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that fracking may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution. The controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells has...
View ArticleDeadline Nears For Comments on Fracking Plans
Wednesday is the last day members of the public can submit comments on the New York's plans to regulate the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as fracking.Regulators will sort the...
View ArticleAlbany Regulator: Driller in PA Muddied NY Waters
Regulators are seeking to fine a gas driller in Pennsylvania for water quality violations in New York.In a complaint letter, New York's Department of Environmental Conservation said the driller, U.S....
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TN MOVING STORIES: Florida Bullet Train Would Have Been Profitable, Cheap...
Top stories on TN: the Senate will move its highway bill Thursday. An audit of the Port Authority called it a "challenged and dysfunctional organization" and found cost overruns at the World Trade...
View ArticleTED Talks: T. Boone Pickens on the Future of Energy
T. Boone Pickens is an unlikely environmentalist. The native Oklahoman made his fortune in the oil business, and then, in 2008, shifted his focus to America's energy future. The result is the Pickens...
View ArticleThe Perils and Promise of Fracking
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica reporter; Mark Boling, executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary at Southwestern Energy; and Stu Gruskin, consultant and former executive deputy of New...
View ArticleEnergy in North Dakota and the 2012 Election
We’ve seen huge economic changes across the country since 2008. The Associated Press’s Dale Wetzel talks about the natural gas and oil industries in North Dakota and throughout the Plains states that...
View ArticleThe Fall of Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubry McClendon and the Future of Natural Gas
Aubrey McClendon, the beleaguered C.E.O. of Chesapeake Energy, stepped down this week from the company he founded 30 years ago.His departure marks the culmination of months of spiraling losses for the...
View ArticleFossil Fuels Forever
Vince Beiser, senior editor at Pacific Standard, discusses his article "The Deluge," which looks at the massive amounts of oil and gas being discovered around the world.
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AUDIO: Money Talking Asks, Is Energy Independence A Reality?
Oil wells north of Bakersfield, CA (Photo CC by Flickr user Tomasso Galli)From our friends at WNYC's Money Talking. For years, politicians have called for the nation to end its dependence on foreign...
View ArticleGasland Part II - on Fracking
Josh Fox, director of “Gasland Part II,” talks about hydraulic fracturing, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now being used worldwide. The film shows how the stakes have been...
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