06/27/11 10:00am

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Insiders sound an alarm amid a natural gas rush (via The New York Times)

Behind Veneer, Doubt on Future of Natural Gas (via The New York Times)

Amid US gas boom, split over 'fracking' (via AFP)

Lawmakers Urge Obama To Pursue Energy Security Through Natural Gas (via Huffington Post)

Editorial: The Facts About Fracking (via The Wall Street Journal)

Why We Need to Calm the Natural Gas Frenzy (via Green Biz)

Goverment considers boosting fuel economy requirements to 56 m.p.g. by 2025 (via Detroit Free Press)

White House proposes increased mileage standards for cars, light trucks (via The Washington Post)

Six reasons why auto industry cost claims for 62 MPG are wrong (via The Energy Collective)

Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Alternatives (via The New York Times)

Nevada enacts law authorizing autonomous (driverless) vehicles (via Green Car Congress)

Connect your EV to the grid, make $440 a year (via Mother Nature Network)

EPA sets timeline for controversial air pollution rule (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

House Panel Blocks EPA on Coal Ash (via ECT.coop)

Coal Generators and the EPA Power Struggle: Will Consumers Foot the Electric Bills? (via Seeking Alpha)

Rep. Upton hints at spending bill rider to limit oil release (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

Average Price for U.S. Gas Falls to $3.63 (via The New York Times)

API: Forecasted Gulf oil production down in year since spill (via Fuel Fix)

Using strategic petroleum reserves no solution to oil addiction (via The Energy Collective)

Obama Taps Petroleum Reserve. Consider This Q.E. 3 (via Forbes)

US regulators probe possible leak of oil release info (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

A Conservative’s Case for a Gas Tax (via The New York Times: Dot Earth)

Waters Encircle Nuclear Plant (via The Wall Street Journal)

Regulator signs off on threatened nuclear plant (via Reuters)

Ocean Currents Speed Melting of Antarctic Ice (via The Earth of Institute)

A new way of thinking as sea levels rise (via The Washington Post)

NASA develops program to fill gaps in pollution monitoring on Earth (via Inhabitat)

Anticipating Climate Catastrophe, But With Optimism (via NPR)

2010-2011: Earth’s most extreme weather since 1816? (via Weather Underground)

NJ legislators working to block Christie’s carbon market exit (via Solve Climate News)

Growing Evidence on Climate Change Affecting U.S. Gardens (via Science Insider)

Grasping Climate Change at a Garden-Plot Level (via The New York Times Green Blog)

Is this America’s renewable manufacturing future? (via AOL Energy)

DOE to invest $120 million to support new manufacturing technologies (via Energy Boom)

Brown to green: a new use for blighted industrial sites (via Energy Bulletin)

Emissions from energy use in the water sector are poorly understood (via EurekAlert)

Google axes PowerMeter – a bad sign for others? (via CNET)

GE spends $63 million to fund clean tech start ups (via TIME: Ecocentric)

In the Nevada Desert, a Building Floats on Water (via FOX News)

Do Energy Subsidies Make Green Sense? (via Green Biz)

Solar industry momentum at risk (via The Energy Collective)

Diesel fuel from bioengineered E. Coli (via Katerva)

Biofuel firm KiOR closes flat in IPO (via GigaOM)

Most Japanese oppose nuclear reactor restarts: poll (via Reuters)

Protesters demand French nuclear plant closure (via Reuters)

Gillard stares down ‘electoral annihilation with carbon tax (via Bloomberg)

Solar heats up in Saudi Arabia (via Forbes)

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