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Junk Science War: Fracking Quakes and ‘Dirty Faces’

By Steven Milloy on Thursday November 17, 2011 at 11:54 am

Though I write to defend the natural gas industry from the junk science hurled at it and the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing (fracking), I do so with mixed emotions. Two recent government reports, one from the United Kingdom and the other from Oklahoma, have tried to draw a connection between fracking and seismic […]

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EPA chief’s toxic emissions

By Steven Milloy on Saturday November 5, 2011 at 9:59 am

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It is time for Lisa P. Jackson to resign. Last Friday at Howard University, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) railed against the coal industry, saying, “In [the coal industry’s] entire history – 50, 60, 70 years or even 30 – they never found the time or the reason to clean up their […]

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Clean energy’s junk economics

By Steven Milloy on Wednesday March 23, 2011 at 11:30 am

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The oxymoron-ish nature of a left-wing “think tank” is on display in the Center for American Progress’ latest pitch for a so-called “clean energy standard” (CES). In a new white paper, CAP says that clean energy opponents (like us), “…have built a fear campaign about the impacts of these investments, arguing that the costs are […]

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