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South Texas Oil Brings Boom As Well As Pollution's 'Toxic Soup'
2014-04-11 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: While the South Texas oil boom has meant a flood of cash and people to formerly impoverished communities, there have also been serious repercussions namely, rampant air pollution. Jim Morris of the Center for Public Integrity explains the boom's environmental effects.
Natural Gas Boom Helps Fuel Region's Major Projects
2014-04-11 16:40:31| ENR.com: Headline News
Major projects moved ahead throughout the mid-Atlantic states in 2013, thanks in large part to significant investment in heavy civil, power and industrial projects. The 20 Top Starts in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, ranked by total project value, tallied a combined $8.44 billion in work.
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Report Offers Grim Predictions for South Texas Air Quality Amid Eagle Ford Oil Boom
2014-04-11 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: What might the oil- and gas-rich Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas look like in 2018? A newly released but largely unnoticed study commissioned by the state of Texas makes some striking projections: The number of wells drilled in the 20,000-square-mile region could quadruple, from about 8,000 today to 32,000. Oil production could leap from 363 million barrels per year to as much as 761 million. Airborne releases of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) could increase 281 percent...
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Shale Gas Boom Leaves Wind Companies Seeking More Subsidy
2014-04-07 21:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Wind power in the U.S. is on a respirator. The $14 billion industry, the worlds second-largest buyer of wind turbines, is reeling from a double blow -- cheap natural gas unleashed by the hydraulic fracturing revolution and the death last year of federal subsidies that made wind the most competitive of all renewable energy sources in the U.S. Without restoration of subsidies, worth $23 per megawatt hour to turbine owners, the industry may not recover, and the U.S. may lose ground in its race...
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VIDEO: India's interior design boom
2014-03-30 01:18:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
India's interior design sector is seeing a boom as the country's middle class increasingly hire professionals to help decorate their homes.
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