The carbon intensity of coal is so high that CCS technology will only slightly reduce emissions, the report authors say.

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This is one you definitely don't hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global

Paul Steiger at the Samara / Massey Journalism Seminar; Photo credit Salim Bamakhrama

Much of the Canadian media elite gathered at the Samara / Massey Journalism Seminar to hear Paul Steiger, former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and now editor-in-chief of ProPublica, a non-profit investigative newsroom in New York.

From Jargon Watch: Fracking

One would think that a process that pumped all kinds of chemicals into the ground would be subject to environmental scrutiny, but it isn't; in 2004 the Bush Administration "concluded that the process was safe and didn't warrant further study, because there was "no unequivocal evidence"

Shawn Fiorentino inspects his mother Norma's well after a methane explosion in Norma's front yard in Dimock PA. Image credit:The Times-Tribune

Wall Street Journal is covering the latest governmental reactions to hydra

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It's been a slow fall for the highly touted, much anticipated, it'll save us all from foreign oil, climate change, and even paint our houses Pickens Plan.

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Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar is an interesting guy: Vocally supportive of renewable energy (yay!) but also a fan of more oil shale development (nay!). Well here's one more example of that.