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- ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - With the warming U.S. Arctic region poised for greater oil and mining development, the White House needs to develop a national strategy that can take environmental decisions on a larger scale, a report issued Thursday...
- Cities have gobbled up water rights for decades, leaving farmers to rent the water back to irrigate crops and raise cattle. During a drought, cities are reluctant to give up any of their reserves. With little irrigation water, farmers must plant...
- (KATV) The oil leak in Mayflower is still less than a week old and the clean-up is a long way from finished, but there is growing concern over the future of that area. Conflicting reports from different agencies aren't helping the...
- (KARK) Additional crews work in challenging conditions to keep the oil from the Mayflower pipeline rupture from spreading. Exxon VP of Operations, Karen Tyrone, says the company increased the clean up response with more than 640...
- (Tampa Bay Times) The oil that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon disaster three years ago killed off millions of amoeba-like creatures that form the basis of the gulf's aquatic food chain, according to...
- (Reuters) n">A "rank" odor that has spread across parts of greater New Orleans may be linked to a leak from the 192,500-barrel-per-day Chalmette refinery, the U.S. Coast Guard investigating the smell said on Thursday. Chalmette...
- (The Globe and Mail) Fueled by grim images of oil-soaked birds and thick, Alberta oil-sands crude pooling in backyards after a pipeline ruptured in Arkansas, anti-Keystone XL activists have redoubled their efforts to persuade...
- (Wall Street Journal) President Barack Obama put climate change at the center of his second-term agenda with soaring rhetoric in his inaugural address, but now he is acknowledging that the message needs some refining...
- (The Hill) Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is giving an iPad to a 13-year-oldwho said he found evidence that human-induced global warming is a hoax through books at a local library. "It was really easy for me to find this...
- (Wunderground) Despite overwhelming evidence and scientific consensus, roughly three of every eight registered voters in the U.S. believes that "global warming is a hoax," according to a national poll released Tuesday by the firm...
- (Guardian) The cooling system for a fuel storage pool at one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant has failed, Japanese regulators have said. There was no immediate danger from the failure, the second at the plant in a...
- (Reuters) The International Energy Agency will invite China and other emerging economies to take part in key strategic talks, sources in the IEA said, in a bid to strengthen ties with non-members whose share in global oil demand...
- (The Detroit News) The U.S. Energy Department said Thursday it wants to extend funding for three bioenergy research centers for another five years as part of a $125 million proposal. read more
- (The World Resources Institute) Natural gas is booming in the United States. Production has increased by 20 percent in the last five years, fueled largely by technological advances in shale gas extraction. Other countries–including...
- (Reuters) - The government on Thursday recommended the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California to aid native salmon runs and help resolve a decades-long struggle over allocation of scarce water resources.
- Eagle Ford's financial footprint is large Houston Chronicle Copyright 2013 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 9:36 pm,...
- Far East El Paso Citizens United is leading a campaign to stop El Paso Electric’s plans to build a plant near fuel storage tanks in impoverished Montana Vista.
- The Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, the largest in the United States, ensures a bigger market for Saudi crude and a stronger global voice for the kingdom.
- Rainfall or snowfall dumped by the most intense storms could grow significantly heavier in most of the United States by the final decades of the century, according to a new climate change study.
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air quality in the Arkansas neighborhood where an Exxon Mobil Corp pipeline leaked thousands of barrels of Canadian crude has improved but was still unhealthy where workers were cleaning it up, the company and the U.S....
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