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Natural gas price heats up in frigid weather
2014-01-12 14:38:49| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post-Gazette: Televisions and furnaces battled over natural gas during the coldest days of the year last week. The region's abundant fuel, pulled from the Marcellus Shale, is being used increasingly as a source for electricity and heat. When both are experiencing record demand, it's a question of getting the gas to the right place, no matter the price. The nation's largest electric grid servicing Pennsylvania and 12 other states, managed by Valley Forge-based PJM Interconnection Inc., lost about 20 percent...
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Natural Gas Has Sharply Reduced Emissions from Power Plants
2014-01-10 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The dramatic increase in using natural gas to produce electricity in the United States has led to an equally dramatic decline in the amount of pollutants and carbon dioxide emitted from the nations power plants, according to a new study. The study, conducted by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, showed that the switch from coal-fired to natural gas-fired power plants has reduced CO2 emissions by 23 percent and emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide by 40...
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Switch to Natural Gas Slashes Power Plant Pollution
2014-01-10 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Natural gas plants emit a tiny fraction of the smog-causing gases and slightly more than half of the greenhouse gases emitted by their coal-burning counterparts, according to a soon-to-be published study. The assessment builds upon earlier reports that substituting natural gas for coal has sharply reduced air pollutants from power generation in the United States. "Since more and more of our electricity is coming from these cleaner power plants, emissions from the power sector are lower by 20,...
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Natural Gas Boom Cuts Into Pennsylvania's State Forests
2014-01-09 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: On the side of a mountain road in Pennsylvania's Tiadaghton State Forest, I'm trying to avoid a steady stream of heavy truck traffic. Acres of freshly cut tree stumps stretch out in front of me. Kevin Heatley lives in the area and has come to these woods for years to hike. He's an ecologist by trade and he's concerned about what he's seeing. "Everything from the noise and the traffic to the lighting, to the pad placements, to the pipeline construction to the road expansion - this is all industrial...
Cold prompts record natural gas demand
2014-01-09 18:36:31| Energy - Topix.net
The unit of Jackson-based CMS Energy Corp. says it set a new hourly record for natural gas delivery on Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., delivering 146,367 million cubic feet of natural gas to homes and businesses.
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