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From the Editor
The Extraordinary Life and Accomplishments of George Mitchell
Most Americans have never heard of Texas oilman George Mitchell, who died in July at the age of 94 at his home in Galveston, Texas. But Mitchell, the son of a Greek immigrant goat herder, was arguably the most important…
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Trend: Is Shale Gas a U.S.-Only Phenomenon, or Does It Have Farther Reach?
September 9, 2013 | Kennedy Maize
The shale gas revolution has so far been a U.S. phenomenon. But hydrocarbon-containing Devonian shale formations are far from a U.S. or even North American phenomenon. Geologic forces didn’t follow political boundaries in the Devonian period 400 million to 300…
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How New Jersey’s Linde Has Been Building on the Shale Boom
September 9, 2013 | Kennedy Maize
Linde Group, an international industrial gases firm based in Munich with a U.S. home in New Jersey, is an unusual beneficiary of the U.S. shale gas revolution. The company has developed technology using the industrial gases it can produce in…
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Washington Think Tank Scopes Out State Shale Gas Regulation
September 9, 2013 | Kennedy Maize
U.S. states vary widely on how they are regulating the booming business of producing natural gas from shale formations, according to a study released this summer by the Washington environmental think tank Resources for the Future (RFF). “As the shale…
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The Challenge of Methane Emissions: How Important, How to Detect
September 9, 2013 | Kennedy Maize
Much recent debate about shale gas recovery through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has focused on methane emissions from shale gas wells. The general take on this topic is that methane (the remarkably simple molecule CH4) is a greenhouse gas…
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BP: King Coal Keeps the Worldwide Throne Against the Gas Challenger
September 9, 2013 | Kennedy Maize
The revolution that has toppled coal from the top of the generating queue in the U.S. has not reached the rest of the world, according to the “BP Statistical Review of World Energy.” While natural gas may have supplanted coal…
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Summer 2013 Shale Gas News Bites
September 9, 2013 | Kennedy Maize
Looking Out for Shale Gas Labor Issues The Houston Chronicle reports that the U.S. Department of Labor is closely watching how shale gas producers protect their laborers from workplace accidents and injuries. They suspect violations of the Fair Labor Standards…
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How Shale Gas Has Helped Pennsylvania’s Economy
September 9, 2013 | Kevin Colosimo
The Marcellus shale formation—the second-largest natural-gas field in the world—has been a blessing for Pennsylvania's workers and our economy. Almost a quarter-million people in Pennsylvania work to produce natural gas from the Marcellus shale or in related industries. Thanks to…
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The Real and Measurable Benefits of Fracking
September 9, 2013 | Aaron Task
In a welcome development almost no one saw coming, America's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen to 1992 levels and are expected to continue to decline, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA). In addition to a sluggish economy and more fuel…
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Gasland Part II: Same Misleading Images, New Conspiracy Theory
September 9, 2013 | Julia Seymour
Director and provocateur Josh Fox is confident, “There is no safe drilling” and has made two of what the New York Times called “muckraking documentaries” crusading against the practice of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” His movies are powerful propaganda rife…
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