A Utah Republican who helps oversee the Interior Department is bashing potential Interior rules that would force natural gas drillers to disclose chemicals they’re using...
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Pike: Market for smart grid data tools and services to hit $4.2 billion by 2015 (from $365 million today)
There’s gold in smart grid data — only about $356 million of it today, but potentially $4.2 billion of it by 2015. That’s Pike Research’s bold prediction for the global...
House climate committee to be axed
The House Democrats’ prized global warming committee died quietly on Wednesday. It was four years old.
U.S. won’t end drilling ban in eastern Gulf
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is rescinding its decision to expand offshore oil exploration into the eastern Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Coast because of...
EPA confirms tiny cellulosic biofuels mandate for 2011
In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the 2011 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency's Renewable Fuel...
Don't consign us to history, plead island states at Cancún
Every country in the Caribbean faces huge economic losses caused by rising sea levels over the coming decades, losing hospitals, airports, power plants, multi-million...
GAO: Lost natural gas costs government $23 million per year
The government is losing tens of millions of dollars in potential royalties from energy companies that let immense volumes of natural gas escape into the atmosphere,...
GM hiring to push electric effort beyond Volt
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it would hire 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan over the next two years to develop more electric cars and...
Joint initiative by Japanese & Algerian universities aims to produce 50% of humanity's energy by 2050—in the Sahara
Life might take a hammering on the sun's earthly anvil, the Sahara desert, but the two most abundant resources the desert has to offer – sunlight and sand – could...
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The premiere of a Matt Damon film featuring hydraulic fracturing is months away, but the energy industry already is considering sending scientific studies to film...
Exxon's CEO: Climate, energy fears overblown
NEW YORK —ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson says fears about climate change, drilling, and energy dependence are overblown.
New fracking rule issued by Obama Administration
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday issued a proposed rule governing hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on public lands that will for the first time require...
New Texas rule to unlock secrets of hydraulic fracturing
Starting Feb. 1, drilling operators in Texas will have to report many of the chemicals used in the process known as hydraulic fracturing. Environmentalists and landowners...
Colorado, Texas set new fracking rules
Colorado and Texas adopted rules that require oil and natural-gas companies to disclose the chemicals they inject underground in the drilling technique known as fracking.
Poland may veto EU anti-shale gas moves
KRAKOW, Poland, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Poland will most likelyveto any attempt by the European Union to limit shale gasdevelopment with EU-wide regulation, a foreign ministry...
Geologists sharply cut estimate of shale gas in Marcellus Shale
WASHINGTON — Federal geologists published new estimates this week for the amount of natural gas that exists in a giant rock formation known as the Marcellus Shale, which...
State fracking rules could allow drilling near NYC water supply tunnels
The latest draft of guidelines for hydraulic fracturing in New York could open the door to drilling within 1,000 feet of aging underground tunnels that carry
Energy Dept. skeptics sound alarm on natural gas rush
In scores of internal emails and documents, officials within the Energy Information Administration, or EIA, voice skepticism about the shale gas industry. One official...
Drilling industry says diesel use was legal
After three members of Congress reported this week that drilling companies have been injecting large amounts of diesel fuel underground to hydraulically fra
'GasLand' Oscar nod draws industry ire
When "GasLand," a documentary which details the environmental impact of a process called "fracking," came out, it created a public relations nightmare...
EPA subpeonas Halliburton after it refuses to comply with fracking information request
Halliburton is the only company that has refused to voluntarily provide the Environmental Protection Agency with key information about its hydraulic fracturing, or...
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