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Another look at natural gas
Posted by New York Times: Eduardo Porter on March 23rd, 2013
New York Times: After my column on Wednesday about how the nation’s natural gas boom is helping reduce emissions of heat-trapping carbon, I received a bunch of e-mail arguing that gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing could, on the contrary, worsen climate change.
The main reason is that fracking wells -- where water, chemicals and sand are pumped at high pressure into horizontal shafts to fracture shale rock deep underground -- leak.
Cheap natural gas is helping to cut carbon emissions because power companies...
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Posted by New York Times: Eduardo Porter on January 30th, 2013
New York Times: To understand the complicated politics of climate change in the United States, you may want to talk to Pamela Johnson, president of the National Corn Growers Association’s Corn Board. She is concerned about the weather. The drought that parched the lower 48 states cut the harvest at her northern Iowa farm by about 40 bushels an acre. For the first time in memory, she says, she had to rely on the federally subsidized crop insurance program to stay afloat. And yet Ms. Johnson’s main concern, and...