Last week, president Barack Obama put forth a proposal to create the Clean Energy Security Trust, to research renewable and domestically-produced energy sources. Per the president’s plan, $2 billion would be set side over 10 years that “will support research into a range of cost-effective technologies – like advanced vehicles that run on electricity, homegrown…
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EPA summary on hydro-fracturing roundtables
The Environmental Protection Agency today posted a summary of five technical roundtables held last year on the agency’s Hydraulic Fracturing Study and the practice’s effects on drinking water supplies. “Fracking” as its known, is highly controversial because of its negative effects on the environment. This is playing out across Pennsylvania where drilling of the Marcellus…
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