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Obama Admin. Overlooked Fracking Risks in California Leases, Judge Rules

2013-04-09 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A federal judge has ruled the Obama administration broke the law when it issued oil leases in central California without fully weighing the environmental impact of "fracking," a setback for companies seeking to exploit the region's enormous energy resources. The decision, made public on Monday, effectively bars for the time being any drilling on two tracts of land comprising 2,500 acres leased for oil and gas development in 2011 by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management in Monterey...

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New Obama admin. report on Keystone XL pipeline has enviros worried

2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: On Friday afternoon, the State Department released a draft of its much-anticipated new analysis of the environmental impact of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Although the report makes no firm statement one way or the other about whether the controversial pipeline from Canada to Texas should be approved, some of its conclusions have enviros worried that a greenlight is inevitable. The administration has spent more than two years considering whether to approve the 1,600-mile pipeline that would...

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Linux Admin Tips, Tricks and Tools of the Trade

2013-02-28 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

Here in the Linux community, most of us enjoy high-level debates about strategies and trends just as much as the next technology enthusiast does. At the end of the day, however, it seems safe to say that what we tend to relish most of all is a good ol' nuts-and-bolts discussion of the tools and tricks of the trade.

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