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Consumers could pay to clean up old natural-gas plants

May 22 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Dan Gearino The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio - Natural-gas utilities want to change the law to make clear that consumers rather than shareholders can be charged cleanup costs for about 90 abandoned natural-gas plants in the state, according to an amendment that might get tucked into the state budget. More...

Landfill methane project becoming a reality

May 22 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Keith Strange The Mount Airy News, N.C. - Sitting in his office Tuesday morning, Surry County Public Works Director Dennis Bledsoe smiled. More...

Public's tone has changed on FutureGen 2.0

May 22 - Jake Russell Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Ill. - Nearly two years since the last National Environmental Policy Act public hearing, the tone about FutureGen 2.0 seems to have changed. More...

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U.S. Coal Exports Help Fuel Economic Recovery

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire - Rising exports of U.S. coal to Europe and Asia added $16.6 billion to the U.S. economy in 2011, making significant contributions to America's economic recovery and job creation in many industrial sectors as well as in regions far beyond the nation's coalfields. More...

SAIC Discusses Oil and Gas Issues at Niobrara Infrastructure Development Summit

SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) - Vice President Jeffrey Spearman and Project Manager Andrew Foley, both in the Oil, Gas & Chemicals Segment of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), will chair and moderate at the 3rd Annual Niobrara Infrastructure Development Summit, to be held in the Magnolia Ballroom in Denver, Colo. more...

ScottMadden to Partner with Energy Central to Host Energy Industry Update Webcast

ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, will join forces with Energy Central to present, "The State of the Energy Industry," on Friday, March 8, 2013, from 12:00-1:00 PM EST. more...

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Articles

Natural Gas on Track to Become Next Energy Giant

By Sarah Battaglia
On: May 6, 2013

Natural gas has been a valuable source of energy for hundreds of years, but over the last decade or so, the use of this resource has intensified. In its early stages, natural gas was mainly more...

Shale Gas - A Potential Game Changer

By Kirk Edelman
On: May 6, 2013

Pick up a newspaper, turn on the radio or tune into the nightly news broadcast and you're bound to hear a reference to shale gas and its impact on the shifting global energy map. "The more...

A Sooty Matter - What to do About Black Carbon Moving Forward?

By Kristopher Settle
On: February 11, 2013

Soot is defined as the particulate matter released by the burning of fossil fuels, mainly coal. It is often a black substance that is deemed harmful because the dark particles cause warming by absorbing heat more...

Oil, OPEC and the Best Brain in the World Again

By Ferdinand E. Banks
On: October 18, 2012

Not long ago I read an article on the site OilPrice.Com in which the author claimed that President Barack Obama lied when he stated that there was a shortage of oil onshore or in the more...

Economics of Shale Gas

By Karol Mazur
On: October 3, 2012

Since 2007, when vast amounts of shale gas in the United States have been tapped, US natural gas production has significantly grown by 20% causing sharp fall in Henry Hub's natural gas spot price. Consequently, more...

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