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Democrats Outraged as Republicans have Filmmaker Arrested (VIDEO)

Democrats attempted to suspend the rules governing permits for cameras during the... more

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Tell President Obama to Walk Away from Empty Promises of Fracked Shale Gas

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama lauded natural gas from shale as a... more

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Natural gas is a bridge to nowhere-absent a price on global warming pollution

President of American Gas Association, 1981: “In fact, gas energy —... more

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A Fracking Trajedy

What the frack am I talking about? A fracking tragedy is playing out all across... more

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A Fracking Trajedy

What the frack am I talking about? A fracking tragedy is playing out all across... more

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Interactive Gasland site

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Romney: Scientists can figure out global warming 50 years from now

By Muriel Kane Friday, December 9, 2011 When asked about his views on climate... more

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$VIDEO Water for Dimock: Bring emergency aid to Pennsylvania fracking victims! - video$

VIDEO Water for Dimock: Bring emergency aid to Pennsylvania fracking victims!

Help bring emergency aid to Dimock: http://j.mp/4dimock On November 30th, 2011 the... more

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The Derweze Crater – The Door to Hell

A Natural Gas disaster in Turkmenistan turned into hell on earth.

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Natural gas and oil business still booms during Oklahoma drought-don't wonder why there are more earthquakes

Severe drought conditions are making the process of getting clean water for oil and... more

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IEA’s Philibert discusses scenarios for the future of the global energy

Now we have to consider something else, which when you do a comparison on the basis of... more

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$Will fracking save the world?$

Will fracking save the world?

Fracking represents a technology that thus far has allowed the US to reap the benefits... more

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Why the Earth may be running out of clean water

Earlier this month, officials in the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu had to confront a pretty dire problem: they were running out of water. Due to a severe and lasting drought, water reserves in this country of 11,000 people had dwindled to just a few days' worth. Climate change plays a role here: as sea levels rose, Tuvalu's groundwater became increasingly saline and undrinkable, leaving the island dependent on rainwater. But now a La Niña–influenced drought has severely curtailed rainfall, leaving Tuvalu dry as a bone. "This situation is bad," Pusinelli Laafai, Tuvalu's permanent secretary of home affairs, told the Associated Press earlier this month. "It's really bad."

So far Tuvalu has been bailed out by its neighbors Australia and New Zealand, which have donated rehydration packets and desalination equipment. But the archipelago's water woes are just beginning — and it's far from the only part of the world facing a big dry. Other island nations like the Maldives and Kiribati will see their groundwater spoil as sea levels rise. Texas, along with much of the American Southwest, is in the grip of a truly record-breaking drought — even after days of storms in the past month, Houston's total 2011 rainfall is still short of its yearly average by a whopping 2 ft., or 60 cm. Australia has experienced severely dry weather for so long, it's not even clear whether the country is in a state of drought, or more worryingly, a new and permanent dry climate that could forever alter life Down Under. "Climate-change impacts on water resources continue to appear in the form of growing influence on the severity and intensity of extreme events," says Peter Gleick, one of the foremost water experts in the U.S. and head of the Pacific Institute, an NGO based in Oakland, Calif., that focuses on global water issues. "Australia's recent extraordinary extreme drought should be an eye-opener for the rest of us."
(See photos of the world's water crisis.)

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2097159,00.html#ixzz1bAUCHxtB
More at the link.Earlier this month, officials in the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu had to... more

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Dominion Seeks To Export Marcellus Shale Gas While Claiming Its Necessity for U.S. Energy Security

As energy companies scramble to develop the Marcellus Shale and other natural gas... more

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Natural Gas Commercials are BULL!!!! Total Breakdown of Corporate Responsibility Exposed by Satire. Ironic News Report!

The Fossil Fuel and Natural Gas industries have launched an all out publicity blitz to... more

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Natural Gas Commercials are BULL!!!! Total Breakdown of Corporate Responsibility Exposed by Satire. Ironic News Report!

The Fossil Fuel and Natural Gas industries have launched an all out publicity blitz to... more

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$NJ legislature hopes to have enough votes to override Christie's veto of fracking ban bill$

NJ legislature hopes to have enough votes to override Christie's veto of fracking ban bill

A wide coalition of New Jersey organizations worked together in support of the Ban... more

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EPA Poisoning Our Groundwater !

It's time to turn up the pressure on your legislators, the EPA, and the President... more

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UPS Prototype Plastic Vehicle Delivers 40% More Fuel Efficiency

When you operate over 70,000 delivery vehicles worldwide, as UPS does, increasing the miles per gallon of your vehicles is an economically motivated endeavor with some welcome environmental side benefits. Over the years, UPS has tested various vehicle propulsion technologies, including natural gas, hydrogen fuel cells, electric vehicles, and hybrids, to squeeze out ever greater fuel efficiency. However, the announcement that they have started testing a plastic prototype truck, shows that significant improvements can be made without the use of new or elaborate drive train technologies – instead, worthwhile gains can be achieved merely by saving weight.

In fact, 1,000 lbs of weight has been saved by UPS – in collaboration with Utilimaster – on it’s prototype CV-23 truck, which uses lighter ABS plastic, instead of sheet aluminum for it’s body panels. The reduced heft allows a smaller Isuzu 4-cylinder diesel engine to be used, together resulting in a vehicle which achieves 40% better fuel economy as compared with one of their regular package delivery trucks.

This fact sheet from UPS details the particulars of the new CV-23 prototype vehicle, which could possibly replace the current P70 package truck if testing through the remainder of this year is successful. Assuming it stands up to the rigors of the real world, 40% improved fuel efficiency sounds like something worth taking advantage of. So let’s, put it into perspective.

What exactly does an existing P70 truck achieve by way of fuel efficiency? Green Car Congress reported in 2009, that a 12 month test of a P70 hybrid, conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), achieved 29% greater fuel efficiency as compared with the non-hybrid P70 diesel. The diesel averaged 10.2 mpg, so it seems reasonable to use this figure to extrapolate the 40% increase in fuel efficiency of the CV-23. A quick calculation suggests the new vehicle should get something like 14.28 mpg (in excess of a 4 mpg improvement) and it’s worth noting that this betters the efficiency of the hybrid, which was rated at 13.1 mpg in the study. These aren’t UPS’s figures, but any error should be small.

Post Continues: http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/05/ups-prototype-plastic-delivery-vehicles-40-fuel-efficient/When you operate over 70,000 delivery vehicles worldwide, as UPS does, increasing the... more

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Bank of America Vows to Reduce GHG Emissions by 15 Percent

The 2008 global financial crisis may have killed off some banks, but others have... more

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