January 2012
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Video: Analysis of President Obama’s take on natural gas drilling during his 2012 State of the Union address
Jan 30th
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“We have a supply of nat­ural gas that can last Amer­ica nearly one hun­dred...”
– President Barack Obama at the 2012 State of the Union address. 
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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In the Pipeline: A look at Pennsylvania’s new emergency-response bill and Miss America candidate Spenser Wempe sounds off about natural gas in West Virginia. 
Jan 22nd
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Gas drilling firms and their trade groups spent...
The Morning Call reports: ”All told, Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry and its trade groups spent $3.37 million on lobbying between January and September 2011, according to Department of State records. Environmentalists spent $178,909 during the same time period. The Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry trade group in Washington County, led in lobbying expenditures, laying out...
Jan 22nd
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“People speak of [natural] gas as a bridge to the future, but there had better be...”
– Henry Jacoby, co-director emeritus of MIT’s Join Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Read more from “A shale gas revolution? MIT report shows prosperous shale gas market could hurt future of renewables, if we let it.”
Jan 17th
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Jan 10th
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“We’ve got to push the pause button, and maybe we’ve got to push the stop button.”
– Dr. Adam Law, endocrinologist at Weill Cornell Medical College. Read more from “Fracking Moratorium Urged by U.S. Doctors”
Jan 9th
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On this week’s episode of “In the Pipeline,” our hosts discuss the CDC’s call for a new study on the health impacts of fracking and look at what NY Governor Andrew Cuomo *didn’t* say during his State of the State speech.
Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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EPA fines Exco Resources $159,624
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Exco Resources $159,624 for a leaking underground pipe at its Irvin drilling wastewater disposal well in a remote, forested area of Clearfield County that the company failed to report for four months.  What’s your reaction? Join the debate on Pipeline Facebook.
Jan 3rd
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