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With the heft to carry half a million barrels of oil daily, the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline is a huge proposal. But behind the furor over it lies an even bigger question: How should America approach the massive fuel reserves that its northern neighbor is working overtime to tap? |
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Who's lobbying to influence energy and climate legislation in the 111th Congress? E&E examines the players and the money being spent on energy and environmental policy. |
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E&E tracks work on a post-Kyoto agreement for curbing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. |
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The sunken oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst oil spill in U.S. history. E&E examines the response to the spill, the politics of offshore drilling, and the aftermath for Gulf species and industries. |
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Unless climate legislation moves through Congress, the future of U.S. climate policy is likely to be decided in federal court. More than three-dozen states have joined 100-plus businesses, advocacy groups and lawmakers in challenging or defending the Obama administration's push to regulate greenhouse gases. In this ongoing report, E&E tracks the legal battle and tells the stories of the players who seek to shape the process. |
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The devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has spawned a major nuclear disaster. E&E examines the implications for energy, the environment, security and public health. |
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The Fiscal 2012 Budget & Appropriations Report is a one-stop resource for tracking the fiscal 2012 spending process for environmental and energy accounts. The report includes budget tables for DOE, EPA, Interior, USDA and others, and links to stories that relate to the issues surrounding each bill. The tables and stories will be updated throughout the year. |
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Solyndra, a solar manufacturer that was given a $535 million loan guarantee and touted by the White House as a model for the clean energy economy, has filed for bankruptcy. E&E examines how it got there and what it means. |
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"Gas Rush" is an occasional series about the biggest U.S. energy boom in this century, the production of natural gas from shale deposits that underlie much of the northeastern United States and parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. It has become a multibillion-dollar business that is transforming regional economies and changing U.S. energy policy. At the same time it poses environmental risks and difficulties for state and federal regulatory agencies that must police the complex and poorly understood process of extraction. |
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Over the past three years, the EPA Fugitives list has served an important function for the criminal enforcement program besides simply getting the word out about environmental fugitives. It has also become an important PR tool for the agency. E&E takes a closer look at EPA’s armed law enforcement department as well as some of the environmental criminals who are currently on the lam. |
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Earlier this year, a judge in Ecuador ruled that Chevron Corp. should pay up to $18 billion in damages for oil pollution in the eastern part of the country. The 18-year battle has been ugly, both in Ecuador and in U.S. courts, where Chevron has sought to undermine the plaintiffs' arguments and the legitimacy of the Ecuadorean court system. Legal reporter Lawrence Hurley traveled to Ecuador to investigate Chevron's claims and examines whether the case is any closer to a resolution. |
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From plastics to chemicals to the gas pump, the U.S. economy is built on oil. Energy-dense and flexible, crude's success seems impossible to replicate. But in labs across the country, researchers are struggling to realize, through cutting-edge biotechnology and traditional farming, how our economy could turn without oil. |
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Climate change has accelerated the melting of Greenland's vast ice sheet. ClimateWire traveled there to follow researchers studying the changing polar environment. |
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The Himalayan glaciers represent the planet’s largest body of ice outside of the polar caps, and its seasonal melt feeds Asia’s largest rivers. But climate change is altering the crucial water supply from these mountains, and few countries appear prepared to adapt. ClimateWire reporter Lisa Friedman spent 10 days in Nepal’s Khumbu region to tell the story of the uncertain future that the retreating glaciers are creating for the people of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas. |
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A new wave of drilling, fueled by the practice some call "fracking," is promising prosperity and energy security for the country. E&E investigates whether anyone is ensuring it's done right. |
