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| Inhofe defends hydraulic fracturing on Senate floor | | ProPublica | Sen. James Inhofe defends hydraulic fracturing on the Senate floor.In a lengthy speech Tuesday Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, defended the natural gas production method of hydraulic fracturing and warned that legislation reinstating the Environmental Protection Agency's authority over the process would be a "disaster." Read More...
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| Credit due to Schweitzer administration on handling of budget | | Great Falls Tribune | Say what you want about the man's sense of showmanship, or how he sometimes overplays the political hardball game, but no one can deny that Montana's governor and his budget office have done a good job of steering the ship of the state through some stormy economic waters. Read More...
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| U.S. governors ask Congress to stop EPA rules | | Wall Street Journal | Governors of 18 U.S. states urged Congress to stop "harmful" Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions, saying the agency isn't equipped to deal with "the very real potential for economic harm." Read More...
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| Defections shake up climate coalition | | Wall Street Journal | Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away. Read More...
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| Cement plant looks to sun | | Pueblo Chieftain | Holcim's Portland cement plant is the first in the United States to use solar panels to help provide power to the plant, company officials say. Read More...
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| An oil play environmentalists could love | | Forbes | Denbury plans to breathe new life into an old field by injecting it with massive amounts of carbon dioxide--a process with big implications for the capture and sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants across the country. Read More...
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| Senators seek CO2 scrubbing technology | | New York Times | Senators John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, and Jeff Bingaman, Democrat of New Mexico, have joined in introducing a bill that would establish awards for researchers who develop technologies that can economically extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stash it away. Read More...
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| Washington, D.C. Is NOT Burning | | Wall Street Journal | California has been burning up as result of raging forest fires, but Congress doesn't seem to know that. The Senate was all set last week to award $2.8 million of stimulus money for forest fire management to . . . the District of Columbia. Read More...
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| Lummis questions Salazar on decision to rescind leases | | Little Chicago Review | U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., questioned Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, regarding a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision to rescind 23,757 acres of oil and gas leases in the Bridger Teton National Forest in Wyoming. Read More...
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| 35 senators urge Interior to expand leasing | | E&E News PM | Thirty-five senators -- both Republicans and Democrats -- are pressing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to adopt a Bush-era proposal that opens several Atlantic and Pacific coast regions to oil and gas drilling. Read More...
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| Calif. budget plan includes new offshore oil | | Associated Press/Google | The deal to close California's $26 billion budget deficit included a plan to drill for offshore oil, drawing allegations that the fiscal crisis was used for a backroom deal following rejection of the idea by state regulators earlier this year. Read More...
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| VIDEO: Sen. Crapo fights to keep water rights | | Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Ida.) | Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Ida.) voted against the Clean Water Restoration Act, despite its passage by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Crapo, a member of the Senate EPW Committee, also placed a “hold” on the bill, signaling his readiness to filibuster the bill if necessary. Watch the video! Read More...
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| U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop's response to DOI's report | | TMCnet | Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-1) issued a statement in response to a report released by the Department of Interior detailing Secretary Salazar's plans to prevent the reinstatement of oil and gas leases scrapped during his first weeks as Secretary. Read More...
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| Lamborn seeks more shale exploration | | Denver Daily | Congressman Doug Lamborn has introduced legislation that aims at expanding oil shale exploration in Western states. The Republican lawmaker from Colorado Springs said the legislation aims at “dramatically increasing America’s oil production.” Read More...
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| Matheson stands his ground against pressure on climate vote | | Deseret News | For weeks, both supporters and critics of a new climate-change bill pushed advertising and phone-calling campaigns to pressure moderate Rep. Jim Matheson to use his swing vote to help their sides in committee. President Barack Obama even hosted him (and others) at the White House to discuss the bill. Read More...
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| U.S. curbs use of Species Act in protecting polar bear | | New York Times | The Obama administration said Friday that it would retain a wildlife rule issued in the last days of the Bush administration that says the government cannot invoke the Endangered Species Act to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases threatening the polar bear and its habitat. Read More...
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| Gingrich says climate bill will punish Americans | | Associated Press | Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says a Democratic proposal to limit global warming pollution will "punish the American people" with higher energy costs and lost jobs. Gingrich appeared before a House subcommittee writing a broad energy and climate bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases by 80 percent by mid-century. Read More...
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| US green policy will kill economy, says oil chief | | Financial Times | Washington’s energy and environment policy risks plunging the US into an economic tailspin that could turn it into “the world’s cleanest third world country,” one of the US oil industry’s most successful chief executives has warned. Read More...
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| Editorial: Saving energy projects from being litigated to death | | Flathead Beacon (Rep. Llew Jones) | “The U.S. faces potentially crippling electricity brownouts and blackouts beginning in the summer of 2009, which may cost tens of billions of dollars and threaten lives. Unless major investments are made immediately in electricity generation (power plants) and transmission (power lines), the threat of service interruptions will increase.”�That's a quote from a report by the NextGen Energy Council. It shows why we must streamline the permitting process for energy projects in Montana. This nation is facing an energy crisis. Read More...
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| Editorial: Weigh economics of climate policy | | Little Chicago Review (Sen. John Barrasso) | Here at home and all across America, folks are dealing with the reality of an economic meltdown. This is real and immediate. Washington must not add to the problem by increasing the price of energy on families in Wyoming. Read More...
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| Pinedale area awash in mule deer, gas development | | Casper Star-Tribune | Each year, the huge Sublette mule deer herd migrates from winter range near Pinedale to summer range in portions of the Salt River, Wyoming, Wind River, Gros Ventre and Snake River ranges. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has set a herd objective of 32,000 animals for the Sublette mule deer herd. Read More...
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| The Story of Irena Sendler | | Fox News Network | Fox News host Glenn Beck tells the story of Irena Sendler. During World War II, Irena was a member of the Polish Underground in Warsaw. Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing false documents and sheltering them in individual or group children's homes outside the ghetto. To see the video of this story, go here. Read More...
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