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By | 07/23/2012 | Energy and Water, Featured, Issues

U.S. emissions have dropped 7.7% since 2006 due to the rapid switch from dirtier coal to cleaner shale gas. All this cheap gas came from a concerted, public-private effort dating back to the mid-1970s to cheaply extract gas from shale.

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By | 05/27/2012 | Energy and Water, Issues

Government R&D in the development of oil shale fracking demonstrates that the same approach can be used for renewable energy funding.

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