"Obama and Oil Drilling: How Politics Spilled Into Policy"
Interviews suggest that politics initially blinded the Obama administration on oil drilling.
Source: Wash Post, 10/14/2010
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"Pa. Board OKs New Safety Rules for Gas Drilling"
"A set of proposed regulations to modernize safety in Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry and force drillers to disclose the chemicals they use cleared a first procedural hurdle Tuesday."
Source: AP, 10/14/2010
"Oil Drilling and the Senate Clinch Hold"
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, who held President Obama's nomination for OMB director hostage over the deepwater drilling ban, has said she will now hold it hostage until she is satisfied with the pace at which drilling permits are granted.
Source: NYTimes, 10/14/2010
Obama Administration Lifts Deepwater Drilling Ban
"The Obama administration, under heavy pressure from the oil industry and others in the Gulf Coast, on Tuesday lifted the moratorium on deep water drilling that it imposed in the wake of the disastrous BP oil spill.
Source: AP, 10/13/2010
"Google Backs Offshore Wind Power Project"
"Google is backing a plan to lay undersea cables to connect offshore windmills off the mid-Atlantic coast, a step the Internet giant hopes will boost wind power as an energy source."
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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"Large Swaths of Earth Drying Up, Study Suggests"
"The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including large parts of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a new study finds."
Source: LiveScience, 10/13/2010
"How GM 'Lied' About The Electric Car"
"The Chevy Volt has been hailed as General Motors' electric savior. Now, as GM officially rolls out the Volt this week for public consumption, we're told the much-touted fuel economy was misstated and GM 'lied' about the car being all-electric."
Source: Jalopnik, 10/12/2010
"U.S., Chinese Firms Enter Shale Deal"
"The China National Offshore Oil Corp. will pay Chesapeake Energy $2.2 billion for a one-third interest in a South Texas oil and natural gas shale project and will pay billions of dollars more for its share of development costs over the next several years."
Source: Wash Post, 10/12/2010
"DOE Offers Loan Guarantee to Massive Ore. Wind Turbine Project"
"The Department of Energy plans to provide a loan guarantee to the world's largest wind farm, increasing the agency's total loan guarantees or conditional commitments to almost $16 billion."
Source: Greenwire, 10/12/2010
"Minnesota Ethanol Plants' Price Is Pollution"
"Five ethanol facilities in Minnesota have been cited in the past 12 months for widespread air and water quality violations. They have paid more than $2.8 million in penalties and corrective actions."
Source: Minneapolis Star Trib, 10/12/2010
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