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Deep Disposal Wells from Oil and Gas Drilling Linked to Earthquakes
A new study finds that the deep disposal wells used to store drilling wastewater—not fracking per se—may help trigger earthquakes. Regulators and the industry should take notice—and find ways to recycle that wastewater, …
The Unintended Consequences of Exporting Natural Gas
A move to increase U.S. exports of natural gas could pay off for the economy, but it could also lead to more pollution and higher carbon emissions
Obama Talked Climate Change in His Inaugural Address. Now Can He Do Something About It?
After a disappointing first term, environmentalists are hoping for action on climate change from President Obama—and he promised to deliver. But what can he actually do?
Climate Rules: Why Natural Gas Will Be the Big Winner in New Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Ever since comprehensive climate legislation died of neglect in the U.S. Senate in 2010, environmentalists have looked to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step in and save the day. According to the Supreme Court, the …
Fracked: CNN Looks Into the Legal Gray Zone of Shale Gas Regulation
Oil is all we seem to want to talk about these days—$3.82 a gallon gas will do that—but the shale gas boom is still going on in much of the U.S. Ground zero—as we wrote about last year in TIME—is Pennsylvania, where some landowners have made a lot of money leasing their land for shale gas production. But as Poppy Harlow reports …
War on Coal: Why Polluting Plants Are Shutting Down Nationwide
Good news has been hard to come by for environmentalists, especially during an election year with potentially record-breaking gas prices. (Yes that was former President Bill Clinton at the ARPA-E summit on Wednesday telling …
Shale Gas: It’s Not the Fracking That Might Be the Problem. It’s Everything Else
If you were trying to invent with a term that sounds as scary as possible, you couldn’t do better than “fracking.” That’s industry terminology for hydraulic fracturing, the process used to get at unconventional natural gas and …