Also known as Hydraulic Fracturing, used to release oil and gas trapped in rock.
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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CalGEM is set to vote today on the plan to formally phase out fracking in California. Yesterday, over 1000 individuals across the state and country sent comments to Governor Newsom asking him to direct CalGEM to amend the ban to address all fracking...
by Dan Bacher
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature �on Daily Kos, consisting of science stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with ...
by Rise above the swamp
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Construction Coverage has just released a new report about which U.S. states have the most oil reserves. As California regulators transition from fracking and approve fewer and fewer new oil drilling permits each year, California has seen an 11.2%...
by Dan Bacher
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 09:55 AM PST
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“No one I knew in the organization thought this was possible; the pressure to deliver on Woods’ promise to the market permeated the organization.” In March of 2019, U.S. oil major Chevron announced it planned to make investments in its Permian oil...
by Justin Mikulka
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 07:31 AM PST
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Committee kills bill to end offshore oil drilling in CA as Big Oil sets new lobbying spending record SACRAMENTO, CA — On January 16, the Senate Appropriations Committee killed two key climate bills, SB 559 and SB 709, due to strong opposition by the powerful oil industry lobby in California. SB 559 would end offshore oil drilling leases in Southern...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 09:09 AM PST
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By Erin Douglas The Texas Tribune " Another large earthquake shows seismic activity continues to increase in West Texas, experts say " was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, ...
by Texas Tribune
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Apparently eager to keep the chaos going, House Republicans have put forth budget distractions instead of solutions that leadership from both parties agreed on earlier this year. The Biden administration has made it clear that all new amendments...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 07:55 AM PDT
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Senator Gene Yaw (R-23), the chair of the Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, reacted to a hearing on a House bill by issuing a statement that concluded, “It is often said that we cannot legislate against stupidity. That...
by Karen Feridun
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 12:50 PM PDT
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Lisa Kudrow and Randy Rainbow are delightful proof the complaint voiced early in the 21st Century that politicians had killed parody was wrong. Self parody is also still going strong. Because, as many regular Earth Matters readers know, the 28th...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Also: Biden joins picket line in MI; SCOTUS rejects AL gerrymander (again) Cassidy Hutchinson warns against former Prez Much MUCH more... Some breaking news just before airtime helped, once again, threw off our best laid plans for today's BradCast....
by TheBradBlog
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Would you want to work for a company that's profiting off destroying your future? What about an industry that's already destroying your present? Obviously not — but for a select few, it's not much of a choice. On the first question, the fossil fuel...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 05:49 AM PDT
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Number of oil drilling permits approved since Jan. 2019 rises to 14,623 as neighborhood permits soar Los Angeles, CA— Despite the constantly repeated mantra by California politicians and media talking heads that the state is the nation’s “green leader,” the actual reality on the ground is much different as California regulators continue to approve...
by Dan Bacher
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Fracking is legal in Pennsylvania but not in New York. That created a situation where researchers were able to compare nearby areas, one where fracking was abundant, and the other where fracking was absent, as shown in the title image. For the primary...
by wilderness voice
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Gusher of oil industry money has fouled California politics Flush with billions of dollars in record profits, the oil and gas companies in California have been spending big money lately in an attempt to influence the California Legislature and voters...
by Dan Bacher
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Los Angeles, CA— As Californians paid record high prices at the gas pumps, oil companies and their refinery operations reaped record profits in only three months from July to September 2022. In their latest report on oil company profiteering, Consumer...
by Dan Bacher
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Sacramento, CA — Despite California’s image as a “green” and “progressive state,” Big Oil and Big Gas continue to exert huge influence over California regulators in the promotion of carbon capture and storage as a “tool” to addressing climate change....
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Oct 25, 2022 at 11:38 AM PDT
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The proposed reuse of an oil and gas production byproduct is facing opposition from environmental advocates who caution that there is simply no way to properly decontaminate it. The byproduct known as produced water is generated during the extraction...
by April Siese
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by Ray Levy Uyeda This article was originally published at Prism In the decades since the oil and gas industry began investing heavily in hydraulic fracturing technology in the 1990s and early ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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Every single time the American Petroleum Institute (API) is mad about something, it’s a great thing for anyone standing up to the oil and gas companies it represents. The latest victory against the API is a settlement that was reached on Tuesday...
by April Siese
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