So many positive attributes have been ascribed to natural gas it’s a wonder that it hasn’t been touted as a cure for wrinkles and belly fat. The U.S. gas bonanza will revive domestic manufacturing, lower carbon emissions, weaken OPEC, reduce...
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Workers lay the pipes for a gas pipeline outside the town of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, on April 13, 2012. It is estimated that more than 500 trillion cubic feet of shale gas is contained in this stretch of rock that runs through parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia.
Wyden Seeks the Whole Truth on Natural Gas
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Joe Biden
Biden Showing White House’s Hand on Keystone?
Was Vice President Joe Biden showing his hand — and thus the administration’s — on the Keystone Pipeline? A Sierra Club volunteer in South Carolina says Biden appeared to indicate his opposition to TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL in a brief conversation with her...
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Facebook Disliked: Environmentalists Challenge Ads for Senators
Facebook is getting disliked by environmental groups and progressive organizations such as Moveon.org in response to ads being run by affiliates of a group created by Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Moveon, Sierra Club and the League of Conservation...
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Pipeline sits on the ground near a trench during construction of the Gulf Coast Project pipeline, part of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project, near Ada, Oklahoma.
American Jewish Committee Is Part of Pro-Keystone Lobbying Effort
The American Jewish Committee usually speaks out on Israel and on the plight of Jews worldwide. Now it’s among the four dozen organizations lobbying on the Keystone pipeline. The AJC supports the pipeline, aligning itself with the oil industry and...
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Gina McCarthy smiles during her nomination by President Barack Obama to run the Environmental Protection Agency on March 4, 2013 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.
McCarthy’s EPA Confirmation Targeted
The Americans for Limited Government, which declares itself to be “perpetually ahead of the issue curve,” announced today that Gina McCarthy’s nomination as head of the Environmental Protection Agency will die in the Senate. The reason: EPA’s finding that the...
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Tire tracks run across the dry bottom of the Morse Reservoir in Cicero, Indiana, on July 12, 2012.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 33
That’s the share of Americans who say global warming is a “very serious” problem, according to a Pew Research Center survey in March. That compares with 32 percent who said global warming is a somewhat serious problem, 20 percent who...
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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, left, and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein leave the White House after they and 13 other bank heads met with President Barack Obama on March 27, 2009 in Washington, DC.
Washington Daybook: Banks, Budgets and Guns
President Barack Obama will meet with the heads of the world’s biggest banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Lloyd C. Blankfein and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon, seeking to strengthen ties that have been strained by new U.S. curbs...
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A woman covers her face with her sweater in the heavy smog in Haozhou, central China's Anhui province.
Inhofe Can’t Budge an Admiral Who Says Climate Change Matters
North Korea’s threat to wage war was the No. 1 topic today when senators quizzed the head of the U.S. Pacific Command. Still, Sen. James Inhofe wouldn’t let the morning pass without a chance to attack those who think human...
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A limousine carrying President Barack Obama on March 20, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.
Tel Aviv Breakdown: Presidential Limo Towed — (And Replaced)
Now here’s an energy crisis: Diesel fuel in the presidential limo, a gas-guzzler. Fortunately for the White House, however, there are many presidential limos. So when part of President Barack Obama’s fleet in Israel ended up on a flatbed truck...
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The Washington Monument stands behind cherry trees blossoming in Washington on March 19, 2012.
Washington Daybook: Awaiting Cherries
President Barack Obama arrived in Tel Aviv this morning on his first visit to Israel as president. The three-day trip includes meetings and news conferences with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who disagrees with Obama on how to handle Iran’s...
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