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Loopholes in Hydraulic Fracturing Regs, Improving Washing Machines and Flat-Screen TVs, and Carbon Capture.

Loopholes in Hydraulic Fracturing Regs, Improving Washing Machines and Flat-Screen TVs, and Carbon Capture.

The New York Times consulted with Kate Sinding in advance of a Times editorial drawing attention to problematic loopholes in hydraulic fracturing regulations... In a Greenwire article picked up by New York Times online, Kristen Grenfell spoke about the hope that new California washing machine efficiency standards will go into effect shortly... Noah Horowitz was interviewed by CBS-5 in San Francisco about increasing the efficiency of flat screen TV's and the impact that will have on California's energy use... In The Associated Press NRDC consultant Susan Glickman expressed concern about possible bias at a recent symposium on energy issues hosted by Florida State University... David Doniger and Jake Schmidt were cited regarding potential loopholes in the Senate climate bill in a recent New York Times Dot Earth blog post... John Steelman voiced his support for using carbon capture technology as a way to limit emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases in the Roanoke Times... And in their fall magazine, Save the Bay, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation did a full-page article on Nancy Stoner and her work on the Chesapeake Bay.

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carboncapture, chesapeakebay, climatebill, energyefficiency, hydraulicfracturing, washingmachines

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