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AUTOS/AVIATION/TRANSPORTATION

Automakers, Obama administration agree on fuel efficiency standards through 2025 (via The Washington Post)

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GOVERNMENT/REGULATIONS

Volleys Fly in House Debate on E.P.A. and Interior (via The New York Times Green Blog)

Salazar expects Obama to win...

This week, energyNOW! takes you to Pennsylvania for an in-depth look at both the promise and problems of shale gas development in the Keystone State. But Pennsylvania is just one state in the massive Marcellus Shale, the world's second-largest natural gas reserve.

While the debate over the extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing and its consequences goes on in Pennsylvania, it has taken a different shape in...

energyNOW! publishes a daily roundup of top news and opinion on energy and the environment. Inclusion of articles does not mean endorsement.

CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT/EMISSIONS
Ohio leads list of top 20 states with toxic air (via Reuters)

See NRDC's Report: Toxic Power (via NRDC)

UN says climate change threatens security (via Herald Sun)

U.N. Deadlock on Addressing Climate Shift...

energyNOW! publishes a daily roundup of top news and opinion on energy and the environment. Inclusion of articles does not mean endorsement.

BP pipeline leaks oily mixture onto Alaskan tundra (via Reuters)

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energyNOW! publishes a daily roundup of top news and opinion on energy and the environment. Inclusion of articles does not mean endorsement.

GOP again rejects nixing oil tax breaks in debt meeting (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

GOP light bulb amendment likely to pass Friday after...

energyNOW! publishes a daily roundup of top news and opinion on energy and the environment. Inclusion of articles does not mean endorsement.

Utility Shelves Ambitious Plan to Limit Carbon (via The New York Times)

Oil giant ConocoPhillips to split into 2...

Don't expect to see any action on a clean energy standard or a move for the federal government to regulate the natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing in this Congress. Staff leaders from both parties said Tuesday that there is not enough bipartisan support for either measure to pass.

Bob Simon, the staff director for the Democratic majority on the Senate...

Americans use 40 billion plastic spoons, knives and forks a year, and according to worldcentric.org, most of them go to landfills and aren't recycled. Conventional plastics, of course, are made with oil, and the United States uses about a million barrels of oil a day, just for the plastics industry alone. That's about 7 percent of...

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E.P.A. Issues Tougher Rules for Power Plants (via The New York Times)

Cleaner air, costlier electricity under new EPA rule (via MSNBC)

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One of the nation's top energy reporters has been sidelined, if not silenced. Associated Press Business Writer Tim Huber covered the coal industry from Charleston, WV – until last Wednesday, when he suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke. Now he is fighting for his life in an intensive care unit. Even if he survives, his wife and two young children have been told he may never speak or walk again. Given those circumstances, resuming his career would be miraculous.

In his...

energyNOW! publishes a frequent roundup of top news energy and environment stories from print and online outlets. Inclusion of stories does not mean endorsement.

Mountain snowmelt swells Yellowstone River, complicating Exxon's oil spill cleanup in Montana (via The Chicago Tribune)

Scope of Yellowstone River oil spill may grow (via MSNBC)

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