Time: Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to find the right line on shale natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal--according to most scientists--and produces far fewer air pollutants. That was enough for many major green groups to give support to gas as a "bridge fuel" to a cleaner energy future--the next best domestic alternative to coal as an electricity source while alternatives like wind and solar scaled up. But for......
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How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry—and Why They Stopped
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2012
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