Tag: Energy
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World Petroleum Use Sets Record High, Asia Remains Largest Consumer
The world’s consumption of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, heating oil and other petroleum products reached a record high of 88.9 million barrels per day …
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How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
With per-well production decline rates of between 81 and 90 percent in the first 24 months, wells must be constantly replaced by new ones just to keep production flat. The higher production gets, the more new replacement wells have to be drilled.
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Radioactive Water Tank Leak at Fukushima Worst Since 2011 Disaster
The seemingly endless torrent of scandals rushing from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima continues with the news that a serious incident is underway at the stricken plant …
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Record-Breaking Renewable Energy Capacity Pushes Fossil Fuel Plants to Close in Germany
Germany’s renewable energy industry has again shown its strength, shattering through another solar power record, as utility company RWE announces it will close fossil fuel power plants …
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650,000 Comments Call on Obama Administration to Ban Fracking on Public Lands
Yesterday, a coalition of 276 environmental and consumer organizations delivered to President Obama and the BLM nearly 650,000 public comments asking the federal government to ban fracking on public lands …