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New Twin Ports Plant
May 22, 2013 | WDIO-TV ABC Duluth, MN

Halliburton May Expand Natural-Gas Use, Brown Says
May 20, 2013 | Bloomberg

Ross Says Will Look at Investing in Spanish Banks
May 20, 2013 | Bloomberg

Natural Gas Wikipedia Information

is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide.Natural It is found in oil fields and natural gas fields, and in coal beds (as coalbed methane). When methane-rich gases are produced by the...

Sacramento Connect

West Coast Senators to CFTC: Energy Swap Markets Continue to Avoid Oversight
May 21, 2013
Washington May 21, 2013 - Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, together with Senators...

Dan Bacher: Three fracking moratorium bills pass Assembly Resources Committee, then go into Appropriations suspense file
May 20, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Despite intense political pressure by the oil industry, the Assembly Natural Resources Committee on April 29 approved three bills proposing to...

Carbon Dioxide at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory reaches new milestone: Tops 400 ppm
May 13, 2013
NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Thursday, levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time...

Unitrans fleet strives to be green
May 09, 2013
With UC Davis’ eco-friendly biking community, some cringe at the thought of climbing aboard a diesel-guzzling city bus. But with Unitrans now operating 44 of its...

The Mountain Messenger | All Aboard? A mighty effort to bring trains back
May 10, 2013
NEVADA CITY Calif. May 10, 2013 - Al Bulf is a dreamer. His idea seems, at first, a crazy one. He wants to bring railroad travel back to this area. The right of...

Sierra Club Statement on BLM’s Decision to Postpone Oil and Gas Lease Sales in California
May 07, 2013
Washington, D.C. May 7, 2013 - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in California has announced postponement of any new oil and gas lease sales for the remainder...

Other local news reports

California exceeds Low Carbon Fuel Standard targets - - for now
April 30, 2013 | UC Davis News
Low carbon fuels include biofuels from waste and plant materials, natural gas ... Of the credits, 78 percent were generated from ethanol from corn, other grains and sugarcane; 12 percent from natural gas ... and...

Good to be green: Accolades add to UC Davis' environmental reputation
April 26, 2013 | UC Davis News
The Unitrans community bus system is run by UC Davis students, and its fleet of clean buses runs on compressed natural gas. Green building practices include four LEED Platinum...

Thomas D. Elias: Fracking vs. impact on state's natural gas
February 18, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
California could have three or more facilities receiving liquefied natural gas today, but for massive popular resistance to the prices and possible dangers they might have...

Number of natural gas wells stable in Sutter County
January 21, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
The number of gas wells in Sutter County -- one of the state's largest natural-gas producers -- is fairly stable, says the state agency that tracks figures. A total of 267...

From around the web

Kroger launches app version of its loyalty card
May 21, 2013 | indystar.com
Kroger is partnering with Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Ind., to use manure from dairy cows to make compressed natural gas ... Elliott says surplus food that ca not be sold or donated will be converted to methane and then converted to compressed natural gas ...

Natural gas van maker, backed by T. Boone Pickens and U. S. government, shuts down
May 09, 2013 | GigaOM
Vehicle Production Group, which made natural gas and gas-powered vans for disabled passengers, says it's closed up shop. ...

Efforts to stop drilling in Thompson Divide gets grant
May 10, 2013 | Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
An environmental foundation controlled by employees of Aspen Skiing Co. gave a $50,000 grant to three organizations fighting to prevent natural gas drilling in Thompson Divide,...

The Indianapolis Star: publishing since 1903
May 10, 2013 | indystar.com
The News fought an attempt by Standard Oil Co. to distribute natural gas in Indianapolis. In 1909, a libel suit was filed against The News by the federal government when the...

Pipeline mishap to keep 56th Street closed into Saturday
May 10, 2013 | indystar.com
There are 144 miles of natural gas pipelines and 88 miles of hazardous liquid pipelines in Marion County. Marathon Petroleum Corp. specializes in refining, marketing and...

Chart of the Week
May 08, 2013 | Power Line
No wonder Europe is getting off its duff and trying to move forward with plans to expand its own shale natural gas ... Not coincidentally, cheap natural gas is starting to prompt...

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