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The process of hydraulic fracturing (also known simply as "fracking") continues to divide the public and public policymakers, even as resulting lower natural gas prices have encouraged industries, including many power plants, to convert from coal-fired boilers as one means as coping with coming limitations on the emissions of carbon monoxide. Local concerns about fracking activity have their origin in concern about pollution of drinking water sources. Those concerns have now expanded to include concerns about the management of fracking fluid wastes and the possibility that ...
Last week the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight. Advancement of the clock hand symbolizes experts' concerns on the threat of global catastrophe. Kennette Benedict, executive director of the BAS warned that countries emitting carbon dioxide and other gases are transforming the Earth's climate in a dangerous way, leaving millions vulnerable to rising sea levels, famines and killer storms. The executive director, however, emphasized that BAS' message was not one of hopelessness, indicating that it is ...
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Tags: BAS, blm, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Department of Energy, Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, DOE, Doomsday Clock, global catastrophe, Obama Administration, PHMSA, QER, Quadrennial Energy Review