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Worth the risk? Debate on offshore drilling heats up - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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  • a city known for beautiful beaches and wealthy residents, Mayor Marty Blum recalls black: the color of more than 3 million gallons of oil that flowed from a drilling rig blowout in 1969 and covered 35 miles of coastline with a thick layer of goo.
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Gas Boom Creates Jobs in Pennsylvania, but How Many? - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • it's clear that thousands of jobs have been created in the past few years. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry says industries related to natural-gas extraction directly and indirectly created just over 13,000 jobs in the state in 2010.
  • it's still easily the sector that is growing the fastest,"
  • Counties with 10 or more wells drilled in 2010 have seen their unemployment rates drop by more than half a percent on average during the past two years
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  • 67,000 new jobs in 2010 based on spending by gas companies,
  • economic impacts from gas-industry workers spending their wages, the report cites a "total employment impact" of 140,000 jobs last year.
  • "Three years ago we heard the gas isn't there," said Range Resources' Mr. Pitzarella. "Then it was the money isn't real. Then all the workers are from Texas. Now, they say the jobs aren't real. Tell that to the thousands of people who are paying the bills and saving for their future because of gas drilling."
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25 x '25: Creating a new renewable energy standard for Michigan : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Lizzie Grater on 23 May 12 - No Cached
  • Republican consulting firm.
  • allows us to use manufacturing capacity in Michigan rather than bringing in $1.6 billion worth of coal from West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
  • keeps dollars in our state and it keeps us at the cutting age of new types of manufacturing technology,”
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  • jobs it’ll bring to the state and the environmental benefits of renewable energy
  • it gives Michigan cleaner and healthier air and water
  • We’re increasing about 1 and a half to 2 percent a year. So, this would increase us another 15 percent over 10 years – so, about 1 and a half percent a year. So, it’s a nice, steady transition to cleaner energy.
  • residents have health care costs and damages of about $1.5 billion a year – just from those nine oldest coal plants
  • significa
  • nt dent in those health costs that we are currently occurring
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Green Projects Are Hogging Resources - Bob Beauprez - Townhall Finance Conservative Col... - 0 views

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shared by Lizzie Grater on 23 May 12 - No Cached
  • But green projects, proposesd in the name of conserving resources, are really resources hogs
  • "emissions from increased production of internationally traded products have more than offset the emissions reductions achieved under Kyoto Protocol."  
  • Alejandro Leiva on 23 May 12
     
    Why do you have 8? * cough* overachiever *cough*
  • Lizzie Grater on 24 May 12
     
    umm because my topic is complex
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Pennsylvania gets high marks for rein on drilling for gas - Washington Times - 0 views

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  • From 2008 to 2010, the percentage of violations in relation to the number of wells drilled dropped from 58.2 percent to 30.5 percent
  • Nearly two-thirds of the violations were deemed “administrative” in nature and had no physical impact
  • Industry leaders are mounting a pushback against those efforts, arguing that states such as Pennsylvania, New York and others are far better equipped to craft guidelines specific to their geographic and environmental situations, rather than rely on a one-size-fits-all standard from Washington, D.C.
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Opinion: Earth Day reminder: Growth and green can mix - Heather Zichal - POLITICO.com - 0 views

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  • Thanks to the president’s leadership, we are on track to double energy generated from renewable sources like wind and solar in his first term, creating jobs and ensuring America is not ceding this industry to China and other countries
  • average fuel efficiency is expected to nearly double, reaching an average performance equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025
  • Jacob Wessels on 30 May 12
     
    hippie alert?
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