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Do You Live in One of the 32 States that Has Been Fracked?
2013-01-18 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a progress report on its ongoing study of hydraulic fracturing and the impacts of fracking on drinking water. The progress report contains a lot of interesting information, but one particular map caught my eye. The map shows that fracking has occurred in more states than previously known, including places like Arizona, Nevada and Maryland. All in all, we now know that fracking has occurred in at least 32 states since 2005. It...
United States: Governor Kasichs Commitment to Renewable Energy in Doubt
2013-01-18 17:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Governor Kasich has been ambiguous regarding his support for renewable energy as far back as his campaign for governor. Even at his high-profile Energy Summit in the fall of 2011, when the governor announced his intention to craft a comprehensive overhaul of Ohio energy policy, Gov. Kasich largely avoided the question of whether he sought to expand or contract Ohios commitment to renewable energy--and whether he supported continued investment in renewable energy at all. A week after Gov. John...
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States Turn Their Back on Renewable Energy
2013-01-17 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In the last week, two states--Virginia and Ohio--moved forward on policies that would significantly reduce statewide renewable energy projects. These two states show clear examples of what happens when policymakers and agencies fail to advance clean energy and instead support dirty fossil fuels. In Virginia, Dominion Virginia Power informed environmental groups that the company has reached a tentative agreement with Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to support legislation that would effectively...
Road Safety Laws Need to Strengthen in States, Group Says
2013-01-17 08:13:00| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Nearly a decade of declining road deaths has created complacency among state lawmakers, whose failure to enact stronger highway-safety laws leaves motorists at peril now that traffic fatalities are rising again, according to Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. In December, NHTSA released preliminary data showing that road deaths in the first nine months of [...]
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Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy Potential in the United States
2013-01-16 20:08:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The development of an offshore wind resource database is one of the first steps necessary to understand the magnitude of the resource and to plan the distribution and development of future offshore wind power facilities
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