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***** Fracking seen by EPA as No. 2 emitter of greenhouse gases.

Fracking seen by EPA as No. 2 emitter of greenhouse gases. Natural gas and oil production is the second-biggest source of U.S. greenhouse gases, the government said, emboldening environmentalists who say tighter measures are needed to curb the emissions from hydraulic fracturing. Bloomberg News

Minnesota Power to convert coal plant to gas. Duluth News Tribune

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Minnesota Power to convert coal plant to gas

Duluth News Tribune

- ‎Jan 30, 2013‎

Minnesota Power announced Wednesday it will convert its coal-fired power plant in Hoyt Lakes to natural gas and close one of three coal units at its Taconite Harbor plant on the North Shore as the utility continues a move away from carbon dioxode ...

Minnesota Power converting coal plant to natural gasFinance and Commerce

Minn. Power to convert coal plant to gasMinnesota Public Radio

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5 reasons natural gas won't save us Salon

5 reasons natural gas won't save us
Salon
By Tara Lohan, Alternet If you're hoping the natural gas boom means we've ... but it still may be a significant contributor to global warming pollution ...

Study: Natural Gas No Bridge to Zero Fossil Fuel Future StateImpact Pennsylvania

New research questions climate benefits of natural gas
TheTyee.ca
Powering western society with natural gas instead of coal has immediate ... At that rate, gas may actually accelerate dangerous global warming faster than ...Study: Natural Gas No Bridge to Zero Fossil Fuel Future
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Proponents of natural gas tout new shale deposits, ... when lowering emissions to halt climate change, the methane that leaks from natural gas wells is not ...

Methane - the final nail, lest we regulate it: Measuring Fugitive Methane Emissions. Environmental Defense Fund

Measuring Fugitive Methane Emissions
Environmental Defense Fund
What follows is a briefing on the fugitive methane issue, including the range of ... Cornell University professor Robert Howarth has estimated that total ...

A New Paper on Natural Gas as a Bridge Fuel
Council on Foreign Relations
Robert Howarth and colleagues combined high estimates of methane leakage with a focus on 20-year warming potentials to conclude that natural gas is worse ...

Thawing permafrost will increse global warming

Thawing permafrost will increse global warming

New Era

- ‎38 minutes ago‎

DOHA - Policymakers and climate scientists must monitor and prepare for large carbon dioxide and methane emissions from permafrost, says the startling report on additional global warming as a result of thawing permafrost, released by the United Nations ...

Matt Damon Takes On Fracking In Promised Land

Matt Damon Takes On Fracking In Promised Land

Bridge To Nowhere? NOAA Confirms High Methane Leakage Rate Up To 9 ... ThinkProgress

Bridge To Nowhere? NOAA Confirms High Methane Leakage Rate Up To 9 ...
ThinkProgress
How much methane leaks during the entire lifecycle of unconventional gas has emerged as a key question in the fracking debate. Natural gas is mostly methane ...

Methane leaks erode green credentials of natural gas. Nature.com

Methane leaks erode green credentials of natural gas
Nature.com
Scientists are once again reporting alarmingly high methane emissions from an oil ... rates of methane leakage — an eye-popping 9% of the total production.

Renewables Don't Do this: Huge explosion in the US city of Indianapolis has destroyed one home and set ...BBC News

A huge explosion in the US city of Indianapolis has destroyed one home and set ...BBC News

Natural Gas Can Save the Climate? Not Exactly. TIME

http://science.time.com/2011/09/09/natural-gas-can-save-the-climate-not-exactly/

Idyllic Oregon thrust into energy export debate Reuters

Idyllic Oregon thrust into energy export debate

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎

COOS BAY, Oregon (Reuters) - When federal officials arrived in this scenic but economically struggling port a few weeks ago for hearings on a proposed liquefied natural gas plant, some residents had a sense of déjà vu: it was only six years earlier, in ...

Greenhouse gases could lurk beneath Antarctic ice sheet Los Angeles Times

Greenhouse gases could lurk beneath Antarctic ice sheet

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎

Enormous reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane could lurk beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, hastening the rate of global warming if portions of the sheet collapse, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Antarctic Methane: A New Factor in the Climate EquationHuffington Post

Antarctica's Hidden Carbon Stores Pose Warming Risk in StudyBusinessweek

Highly Cited:'Vast reservoir' of methane locked beneath Antarctic ice sheetThe Guardian

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Michael Vickerman: Debunking the myth of almost unlimited natural gas Capital Times

Michael Vickerman: Debunking the myth of almost unlimited natural gas

Capital Times (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎

With the development of shale gas wells, many consumers got the impression that our nation's supply of natural gas is almost unlimited.

Shale gas failure offers rescue for EU green energy driveChicago Tribune

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Methane's Contribution to Global Warming is Worse than You Thought Earth Island Journal

Methane's Contribution to Global Warming is Worse than You Thought

Earth Island Journal - ‎Aug 20, 2012‎

“Methane is 21 times more heat-trapping that carbon dioxide.” If you're a frequent reader of environmental websites, no doubt you've seen some version of that sentence many times.

The Climate Change Limits of US Natural Gas Council on Foreign Relations

The Climate Change Limits of US Natural Gas

Council on Foreign Relations (blog) - ‎11 hours ago‎

The Associated Press reported last week that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dropped to a twenty-year low on the back of abundant natural gas.

In Era of Climate Change, A Divided Path for Energy and Environmental Policy ...Circle of Blue WaterNews (blog)

Can natural gas solve global warming?Washington Post (blog)

Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Are Putting the Kabosh on Clean Energy Wired News

Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Are Putting the Kabosh on Clean Energy

Wired News (blog) - ‎12 hours ago‎

Sometimes the hydrocarbons take the form of oil, but mostly they exist as natural gas. Over the past 30 years, the technology needed to break up those rocks and get at this gas has steadily advanced.

What's Reducing Carbon Emissions? Natural Gas.Daily Beast

AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year lowAtlanta Journal Constitution

Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Is Still Bad For The Climate — And A Very Poor Long-Term Investment

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/16/699601/exporting-liquefied-natural-gas-lng-bad-for-climate-poor-long-term-investment/

Are Deep Sea Methane Hydrates Melting? Green Building Elements

Are Deep Sea Methane Hydrates Melting?

Green Building Elements - ‎22 hours ago‎

If record-setting temperatures, drought, and food shortages aren't enough in troubling news, we hope this German research effort to find if methane hydrates deep in the ocean is melting due to rising water temperatures - potentially emitting massive ...