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100% Renewable Electricity to Power the World by 2050? It’s Happening, Study Says

100% Renewable Electricity to Power the World by 2050? It’s Happening, Study Says

By Alex Kirby If you think a world powered by 100 percent renewable electricity—and significantly cheaper than today’s—is an impossible dream, there’s a surprise in store for you. A new study says it’s already in the making. A global transition to 100 percent renewable electricity, far from being a long-term vision, is happening now, the […]

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    Massive Fracking Explosion in New Mexico, 36 Oil Tanks Catch Fire

    Massive Fracking Explosion in New Mexico, 36 Oil Tanks Catch Fire

    This week—as thousands of Americans urge awareness to the destruction caused by oil bomb trains—an oil field in San Juan County, New Mexico erupted in flames Monday night, highlighting the continued and increasing dangers of the fossil fuel industry. The fire broke out around 10:15 p.m. Monday at a fracking site owned and operated by […]

    Exxon Starts ‘Most Controversial Oil Rig in the World’

    Exxon Starts ‘Most Controversial Oil Rig in the World’

    For the oil industry, business comes first. After years of preparation, on Saturday ExxonMobil began drilling a $700 million well in the Kara Sea in Russia’s Arctic. It is Russia’s most northerly well. In doing so, the oil giant has ignored growing concerns over Russia’s role in the Ukrainian conflict, and the sanctions imposed on […]

    Residential Water Well Fails in Michigan After Fracking Begins Nearby

    Residential Water Well Fails in Michigan After Fracking Begins Nearby

    Friends of the Au Gres-Rifle Watershed As Encana’s fracking operation continues in Rapid River Township, local residents are losing water pressure and water coming out of the tap looks like milk. Last week, fracking operations at the Westerman 1-29 HD1 continued, despite ongoing issues with the water supply on the pad. The additional water wells […]

    Alaska Oil Well Blowout—A Reminder of Drilling’s Dangers

    Alaska Oil Well Blowout—A Reminder of Drilling’s Dangers

    The Wilderness Society By Tim Woody The first news from Alaska’s North Slope reads like the beginning of a disaster movie. Oil workers on a drilling rig hit a pocket of gas and quickly evacuate to avoid the hazard of an explosion as gas bursts from the ground. The well is out of control and […]

    Why EPA Should Create New Rules for Oil and Gas Waste in 2012

    Why EPA Should Create New Rules for Oil and Gas Waste in 2012

    Natural Resources Defense Council By Amy Mall Used with permission of NRDC – Switchboard With the void of federal protection from toxic oil and gas waste, states can and should create better rules. As I mentioned in a recent blog post, a new West Virginia law takes one tiny step in that direction. From now […]