Tag: Energy
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First County in U.S. Bans Oil and Gas Extraction
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND — Monday the County Commission of Mora County became the first county in the U.S. to pass an ordinance banning all oil and gas extraction …
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Shrouded in Secrecy: Industry Buries Fracking’s True Dangers
ECOWATCH — Wilber, author of the 2012 book Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, said the natural gas industry is different than almost every other type of industry in terms of the exemptions and the nondisclosure agreements under which it operates. All of this secrecy …
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First Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Sells Power to PJM Power Grid
Joined by government and industry leaders, the University of Delaware and NRG Energy are celebrating an important milestone for its eV2g project Friay: becoming an official resource of PJM Interconnection and proving for the first time that electric vehicle-to-grid technology can sell electricity from electric vehicles (EVs) to the power grid.
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Gasland II: From Broken Promises to Renewable Solutions
ALISON ROSE LEVY — Although the film is about fracking, its deeper subject is America in the early twenty-first century. What used to happen in the far away Third World or indigenous regions, is now going on in …
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Not So Fast: LA City Council Demands Complete Transparency Before San Onofre Nuke Restart
HARVEY WASSERMAN — A unanimous Los Angeles City Council has demanded the Nuclear Regulatory Commission conduct extended investigations before any restart at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station …