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December 18 News: Natural Gas Lobby Gears Up Messaging To Counter ‘Promised Land’ Movie
First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.
A leading lobby group, Energy in Depth, has put out a “cheat sheet” of pro-fracking talking points to counter any bad publicity that may arise following the release of the new Matt Damon film, Promised Land. [Guardian]
Outgoing Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has some advice for the next Congress: The era of big energy bills is over. [The Hill]
The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will invest $29 million in solar projects in an effort to boost the nation’s renewable energy sector. [Penn Energy]
One name seems to be popping up increasingly in the chatter about possible picks to replace the likely departing Steven Chu as secretary of energy: Tom Steyer, head of Farallon Capital Management, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds. [Washington Post]
It’s official: Johnson Controls has filed an appeal to the bankruptcy court sale that saw it lose its bid for A123’s assets to Chinese auto equipment giant Wanxiang. [Greentech Media]
Barge operators along a key stretch of the Mississippi River braced Monday for months of restricted shipping as crews prepared to begin blasting large rock formations that are impeding navigation on the drought-plagued waterway. [Associated Press]
The quiet collapse of the most basic principle of UN climate negotiations in Doha – that all decisions should be taken only with complete consensus of 194 countries party to the convention — has troubled India and other developing countries. [Times of India]
An explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become, along with obesity, the world’s fastest growing cause of death according to a major study of global diseases. [Guardian]
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