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With people like Jeff Sessions picked to head Justice, people of this ilk demonstrate Trump's "evil-intent" with regards to how he plans to run the country... Perry and Pruitt: Texas, Oklahoma may call the climate tune under Trump January 6, 2017   ✉ Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (left) and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry By Randy Lee Loftis Texas Climate News Republicans from Texas and Oklahoma – where oil and gas rule politics – may be about to apply … [Read more...] about Trump Picks Morons & Bigots to Lead The Nation

New legislation gets taxpayers off the hook for oil spills, accidents An average of 1,119 carloads of crude oil a day are moved through the United States, and about every 77 seconds, a car carrying 30,000 gallons of crude oil leaves a station to begin its journey. In 2013, a whopping 408,000 carloads of oil were moved across the United States , according to Inside Energy, a collaborative journalism project supported by public broadcasting stations. Crude oil transport has various … [Read more...] about The Daily Frack - June 16

Skirting Cuomo's fracking ban, N.Y. group files proposal BARTON , N.Y. – A proposal to frack for natural gas using gelled propane and sand was announced Wednesday morning at Barton Town Hall in Tioga County. Snyder Farm Group spokesman Kevin "Cub" Frisbie said an application was filed Tuesday with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The move comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration officially banned large-scale hydraulic fracturing on June 29. The state … [Read more...] about The Daily Frack - July 9

Fracking in the Bakken comes with a high human cost The United States has surpassed even Saudi Arabia in oil and gas production, in part because of fracking technology, which allows energy companies to reach oil and gas deposits they could never access previously. One of those deposits lies in the Bakken oil fields, which stretches 170 square miles from North Dakota to Montana and into Canada . An estimated 7.4 billion barrels of undiscovered oil are sitting under the U.S. … [Read more...] about The Daily Frack - June 19

Eventually, the Southwest U.S. will become uninhabitable due to excessively high temps 24/7/365... What Would a Global Warming Increase of 1.5 Degrees Be Like? The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than the previous threshold of 2 degrees. But what would be the difference between a 1.5 and 2 degree world? And how realistic is such a target? by fred pearce How ambitious is the world? The Paris … [Read more...] about Global Warming…Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon!