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MIT researchers can see through walls using ‘Wi-Vi’ What it is: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a technology that uses Wi-Fi to track moving objects. MIT says it has...
View ArticleMethod of extracting natural gas may contaminate drinking water
New evidence shows that fracking may contaminate drinking water, according to a study. Researchers at Duke University in the US state of North Carolina analysed 141 drinking water samples from private...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Climate Change Action Plan: Positives and One Big Regret...
The first national climate plan in the nation's history was issued almost exactly twenty years ago, in October 1993. The Clinton-Gore Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) contained 44 actions that...
View ArticleFracking near Shafter raises questions about drilling practices
SHAFTER One afternoon last fall, Tom Frantz cradled a video camera in his hand and pointed it at an oil well on the edge of this San Joaquin Valley farm town. Workers shuffled amid trucks and...
View ArticleEnvironment vs. employment
With its port as the No. 2 exporter of coal in North America, Metro Vancouver is at the centre of a raging debate over the environmental ethics of increased coal production and exportation. The coal...
View ArticleMoniz: CO2 could enhance US oil by millions of barrels a day (video)
Posted on July 1, 2013 at 10:02 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Environment Comments() | E-mail | Print The future of coal-fired power may lie in still-developing technology to capture the carbon dioxide...
View ArticleMoniz: US can put carbon dioxide to work in the oil field (video)
Posted on July 1, 2013 at 10:02 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Environment Comments() | E-mail | Print The future of coal-fired power may lie in still-developing technology to capture the carbon dioxide...
View ArticleReducing Greenhouse Gases and Promoting Sustainability in the Global Economy
When the EPA finally begins to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, as promised by President Obama last week, one impact will be a reduction of coal consumption here in the United States. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleClimate Change This Week: Vote Says O, Climate Cooks Cattle, and More!
*** Full Disclosure: NOBODY pays me anything to write this column - I'm a masochist! *** Acid Oceans Threaten Billion $ Oyster Biz reports Tim Radford at Climate Central. As carbon emissions acidify...
View ArticleStorytelling science illuminates climate views
Story Highlights A study sorted 2,005 people by political views and asked them to read climate science news storiesThe climate facts were the same in the stories, but heroes and villains were...
View ArticleWhite House has coal country on the defensive
After several years of taking a beating from the poor economy, new pollution rules and a flood of cheap natural gas, the coal industry was on the rebound this year as mining projects moved forward in...
View ArticleWe can have both environmental protection and good economy
It has been a busy news week, what with voting rights, gay marriage and Paula Deen. Even so, it’s remarkable how little attention the news media gave to President Barack Obama’s new “climate action...
View ArticleKrugman: ‘War on coal’ good for economy
It has been a busy news week, what with voting rights, gay marriage and Paula Deen. Even so, it’s remarkable how little attention the news media gave to President Barack Obama’s new "climate action...
View ArticlePresident’s climate change policy impacts national parks near fracking sites
The question becomes even more urgent with the publication of a new study this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which found that drinking water wells in northeastern...
View ArticleEditorial: TVA already on road to producing cleaner power
President Barack Obama last week outlined a long-overdue plan to address climate change. In a speech at Georgetown University, he said the nation must reduce greenhouse gas emissions, use more clean...
View ArticlePower Industry At Odds With Republican 'War On Coal' Rhetoric
WASHINGTON -- When President Barack Obama laid out a broad climate change package earlier this week, Republican opponents accused him of waging a war on coal. The president's plan goes after the coal...
View ArticleObama's climate change plan 'isn't a war on coal', says US energy secretary
Ernest Moniz defends strategy to cut carbon emissions, but says coal remains part of energy mix US president, Barack Obama, announces his action plan on climate change at Georgetown University in...
View ArticleKrugman: Obama's climate plan may boost the economy
It has been a busy news week, what with voting rights, gay marriage and Paula Deen. Even so, it's remarkable how little attention the news media gave to President Barack Obama's new "climate action...
View ArticleObama Climate Change Push Puts Coal Country On Defensive
COLSTRIP, Mont. -- After several years of taking a beating from the poor economy, new pollution rules and a flood of cheap natural gas, the coal industry was on the rebound this year as mining...
View ArticleObama's energy chief denies 'war on coal' claims
The US government is not waging a "war on coal" but rather expects it to still play a significant role, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said on Sunday, rejecting criticism of President Barack Obama's...
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