Energy & Fuel

"Leaking Gas Pipelines Across Michigan Create An Underground Danger"

"Crisscrossing Michigan are more than 3,100 miles of old wrought- and cast-iron natural-gas pipelines -- the type federal regulators consider the most at risk of corrosion, cracking and catastrophic rupturing. The state's two largest utilities have replaced less than 15% of these pipelines -- 542 miles -- in the past decade."

Source: Detroit Free Press, 04/04/2013

Analysis: "Emissions Rules Put Alternative-Fuel Vehicles in a Bind"

"WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency's latest proposed tightening of limits on sulfur in gasoline, and its previous rules, will most likely have the perverse consequence of retarding the development of cars running on batteries, advanced biofuels or hydrogen -- all promising but expensive technologies that have not become mass-market products."

Source: NY Times, 04/03/2013

"Rumors of a Cheap-Energy Jobs Boom Remain Just That"

"These are good times for Libbey, a 125-year-old American glassmaker that nearly went bankrupt four years ago. The company’s shares have risen to almost $20 from below $1, sales of its tableware are at a record high, and its energy-intensive factories saved more than $5 million in 2012 as natural gas prices fell."

Source: NY Times, 04/02/2013

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