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Mixed reactions after U.S. drastically cuts Monterey Shale outlook
2014-05-22 07:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Kim Owens, daughter of an oil rig supervisor who once worked on a fracking crew, now pours drinks for oil workers every day as a bartender at the Foxy Lady in this tiny town 18 miles northwest of Bakersfield. To Owens and many others in Kern County, petroleum is the economic lifeline that provides jobs, fills the hotels and keeps the restaurants open. That's why she was bristling Wednesday at new federal findings that dramatically slashed the estimated amount of oil able to be pulled out of...
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EPA Drastically Underestimates Methane Released at Drilling Sites
2014-04-15 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Drilling operations at several natural gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania released methane into the atmosphere at rates that were 100 to 1,000 times greater than federal regulators had estimated, new research shows. Using a plane that was specially equipped to measure greenhouse gas emissions in the air, scientists found that drilling activities at seven well pads in the booming Marcellus shale formation emitted 34 grams of methane per second, on average. The Environmental Protection Agency...
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Draft UN report: investment in renewable energy must rise drastically
2014-04-07 12:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Time is running out for world powers to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent runaway global warming, while the need for a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy grows ever more urgent, a draft UN document has warned. Climate scientists and government officials are meeting in Berlin on Monday to finalise the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Working Group III report. Following on from the second study last months stark description of the devastating likely impacts of global...
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United Airlines says it will drastically cut flights from its unprofitable Cleveland hub
2014-02-02 13:54:21| Airlines - Topix.net
United Airlines told its employees here today that it will slash around 60 percent of its flights that depart from the city beginning in April in a massive downsizing of what it called its unprofitable Cleveland operation.
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iOS in the Car video reveals drastically improved navigation
2014-01-28 22:10:08| Extremetech
It's been over half a year since Apple announced iOS in the Car integration with over a dozen automakers, and we've not heard much from Cupertino about this feature since then. Today, a video leaked out that shows off exactly what the interface currently looks like, and it's quite promising. It's still just an emulation running in OS X, but it does give us a solid idea of what we can expect from 2014's in-dash user experience.
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