08/17/11 10:16am

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GOVERNMENT/REGULATIONS

Industry pressures Obama on smog rules during Midwest bus tour (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

OIL/GASOLINE/DRILLING

Shell struggles to contain second North Sea oil leak (via MSNBC)

Criticism Is Growing Over Shell’s Response to Oil Leak (via The New York Times)

Pondering impact of drilling off remote northwest Alaska (via The Washington Post)

Greenlanders Divided On Arctic Oil, Gas Exploration (via NPR)

Finding the Weakest Links in Oil Leaks (via Discovery News)

Venezuela, Iran seek to boost dialogue within OPEC (via Yahoo! News)

NATURAL GAS/FRACKING

Groups Ask Cuomo to Extend Fracking Review (via The New York Times Green Blog)

Frack Friends and Foes Blast Energy Department (via Wheeling News-Register)

Gasland director Josh Fox talks fracking, chemicals, cancer, and lies (via Baltimore City Paper)

CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT/EMISSIONS

U.S. cities prepare to adapt to climate change (via USA Today)

Climate change leads Inuits to team up with CSU to predict weather and ice (via Denver Post)

Trout Fishing in a Climate-Changed America (via The New York Times Green Blog)

Climate change could drive native fish out of Wisconsin waters (via EurekAlert)

95 Percent of Firms Meet UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment Deadline (via Green Biz)

WIND/SOLAR/RENEWABLES

Energy in America: Dead Birds Unintended Consequence of Wind Power Development (via FOX News)

Vestas strong orders underscore Western edge in wind (via Reuters)

BIOFUELS

Obama $510M ‘Blueprint’ advanced biofuels program: industry reaction (via Biofuels Digest)

AUTOS

Insight: GM hopes spending on start-ups will make it cool (via Reuters)

UTILITIES/GRID

Arizona utilities warned on winter outages (via AZ Central)

POLITICS

Iowan Shale Play? Texas Gov. Rick Perry Thinks So. (via State Impact)

Rick Perry's environmental record (via Mother Nature Network)

OPINION/ANALYSIS

Analysis: Republicans turn sights on "activist" EPA (via Reuters)

Carbon facts don't tell the whole story (via The Daily Climate)

Real-World Tips for Instilling Green Values in Your Corporate Culture (via Green Biz)

Not Every Green Product Can Be a World-Changer (via Green Biz)

Analysis: On a clear day you may soon see a rig off Virginia (via Reuters)

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