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8:21 pm
Mon May 13, 2013

TransCanada Sues to Stop Pipeline Protesters

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Originally published on Mon May 13, 2013 10:31 am

ATOKA, Okla. (AP) — TransCanada has filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction and restraining order that keeps protesters from disrupting its pipeline construction sites in Oklahoma.

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StateImpact Oklahoma
10:45 am
Thu May 9, 2013

Why Wyoming Coal Still Powers Natural Gas-Rich Oklahoma

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Originally published on Thu May 9, 2013 8:12 am

Oklahoma has more natural gas reserves than all but three other states. And it now accounts for about 40-percent of the state’s power generation.

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10:21 am
Thu May 9, 2013

Why Wyoming Coal Still Powers Natural Gas-Rich Oklahoma

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Oklahoma has more natural gas reserves than all but three other states. And it now accounts for about 40 percent of the state's power generation.
Hydroelectric and renewable sources- mainly wind - provide some too. But when you flip a light switch, chances are that electricity came from burning coal we get from Wyoming.
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Business
4:56 am
Thu May 9, 2013

Shell Digs Deep To Tap Into Lucrative Oil, Gas Reserves

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Royal Dutch Shell is pushing ahead with plans for the world's deepest offshore oil and gas production facility. It will be nearly two miles beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. It is testing the bounds of the oil and gas industry's capability to drill ever deeper.

8:39 am
Thu May 2, 2013

Is Coal Mining Making a Comeback in Eastern Oklahoma?

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Coal mining plays a key role in the history of eastern Oklahoma. Without immigrant miners flooding into the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some towns might not even exist.
When coal mining began to die off, so did many of the towns founded around it. Oklahoma’s coal is just too high in sulfur to be of much use in the U.S. Burning it in large quantities is against federal clean air regulations.
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9:06 pm
Thu April 25, 2013

Sign of the times: Ethanol divides the nation

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In Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, ethanol is most often seen as Midwestern manna, an alternative fuel that eats up the area's biggest crop by the billions of bushels. But here in Oklahoma, the oil and gas industry is big business, bringing in $52 billion a year and creating one of every six jobs. The state's Republican senator, Tom Coburn, leads the fight against ethanol subsidies in Washington.
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Energy
5:02 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Tar Sands Pipelines Should Be Held To Different Standards, EPA Says

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An oil sheen appears along the shore of the Kalamazoo River in August 2012. In July 2010, more than 800,000 gallons of tar sands oil entered Talmadge Creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River, a Lake Michigan tributary. Heavy rains caused the river to overtop existing dams and carried oil 30 miles downstream.
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John Bolenbaugh wades through thick mud in the Kalamazoo River in August 2012, looking for leftover traces of oil from the July 2010 spill from the Enbridge oil sands pipeline.
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Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 3:57 pm

Up until now, pipelines that carry tar sands oil have been treated just like pipelines that carry any other oil. But the Environmental Protection Agency now says that should change. That's because when tar sands oil spills, it can be next to impossible to clean up.

The agency made this argument in its evaluation of the State Department's environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline project, which, if approved, would carry heavy crude from Alberta, Canada, to refineries in the United States.

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Business
4:11 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

Natural Gas Gives Maine Paper Plant A Competitive Edge

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Originally published on Tue April 23, 2013 7:04 pm

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

We've reported on how cheap natural gas is revolutionizing the energy industry. It's plentiful, thanks to the drilling technique known as fracking. Well, that's also changing American manufacturing. Factories are turning to natural gas to replace oil and even biomass sources like woodchips. And here's an example, a paper mill in East Millinocket, Maine.

Jay field of Maine Public Radio has the story.

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Energy
4:09 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

Could An 'Artificial Leaf' Fuel Your Car?

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Miguel Modestino, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, is part of the team working to create a solar fuels generator at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis.
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Ian Sharp (left) and Joel Ager use lasers to study the properties of water-splitting materials. The goal is to improve the efficiency with which solar energy can be used to create chemical fuel.
Credit Roy Kaltschmidt / Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
The concept for the project is to use sunlight as an energy source to take carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into a fuel. This prototype, which was built using a 3-D printer, allows various designs to be tested easily.
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Originally published on Tue April 23, 2013 7:04 pm

It's easy to feel dispirited about climate change because the challenge of dealing with it seems so overwhelming. But Miguel Modestino is actually excited about the challenge. He's part of a large team hoping to make an artificial leaf — a device that would make motor fuel from sunlight and carbon dioxide rather than from fossil fuels.

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