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Posted: 5/17/2013 5:50:29 PM EST
FILE - In this April 15, 2008 file photo, the Excelsior arrives at the Freeport LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) terminal in Houston. The Energy Department has given conditional approval to a Texas company that wants to export liquefied natural gas, the second LNG export project the Obama administration has approved as it faces a wave of export requests. The permit would allow Freeport LNG Expansion L.P. to export up to 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day from its terminal near Freeport, Texas, south of Houston. It is subject to environmental review and final regulatory approval. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Steve Campbell, File)
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Posted: 5/16/2013 4:42:24 PM EST
FILE - In this March 29, 2013 file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado. The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new "fracking" rule replaces a draft proposed last year that was withdrawn amid industry complaints that federal regulation could hinder an ongoing boom in natural gas production. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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Posted: 5/16/2013 4:42:24 PM EST
FILE - In this March 7, 2013 file photo, then-Interior Secretary nominee Sally Jewell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new "fracking" rule replaces a draft proposed last year that was withdrawn amid industry complaints that federal regulation could hinder an ongoing boom in natural gas production. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 7:57:31 AM EST
FILE – In this April 9, 2013 file photo, Energy Secretary nominee Ernest Moniz, of Massachusetts, testifies before a Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee on his nomination on Capitol Hill in Washington. During the hearing, Moniz hailed a “stunning increase" in natural gas production as nothing less than a "revolution" that has led to reduced emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that cause global warming. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 7:57:31 AM EST
FILE – In this May 26, 2011 file photo, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. With more than 20 projects to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) under review by the Energy Department, Wyden, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said officials should seek a “sweet spot” for LNG exports, allowing enough to spur drilling and increase gas supplies, but not enough to create export-driven price hikes. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 7:57:31 AM EST
FILE - This undated aerial file photo provided by Dominion shows the Dominion Liquefied Natural Gas (LGN) facility in Cove Point, Md. A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Expanded More than 20 projects to export LNG are under review by the Energy Department. (AP Photo/Dominion)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 7:57:31 AM EST
FILE - This June 13, 2003 file photo shows pipelines running from the offshore docking station to four liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanks at the Dominion Resources Inc. Liquefied Natural Gas facility in Cove Point, Md. A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. (AP Photo/Matt Houston, File)
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Posted: 5/5/2013 8:43:47 AM EST
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Posted: 5/2/2013 2:43:29 PM EST
FILE - In this April 8, 2013, file photo, an employee of energy company Eon Hanse walks across the premises of the natural gas storage facility in Hamburg-Reitbrook, Germany. Clean Energy refers to energy that pollutes less than coal and oil, the dominant sources of fuel for electricity and transportation. Natural gas is considered by some, including the Obama administration, to be clean because it emits far fewer pollutants than coal or oil. Others consider only renewable energy truly clean. (AP Photo/dpa, Bodo Marks)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 2:03:33 PM EST
FILE - In this Saturday, April 14, 2012, file photo, Indian workers walk past solar panels at the Gujarat Solar Park at Charanka in Patan district, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Ahmadabad, India. In the 2000s, large investors in so-called clean technology wanted to finance companies that would help eliminate the world's dependence on oil, natural gas and coal. But in 2013, clean technology investment funds are not trying to replace the fossil fuel industry, they're trying to help it by financing companies that can make mining and drilling less dirty. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki,File)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 2:03:33 PM EST
In this March 29, 2013 photo, a worker checks a dipstick to check water levels and temperatures in a series of tanks at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. hydraulic fracturing operation at a gas drilling site outside Rifle, Colorado. In the 2000s, large investors in so-called clean technology wanted to finance companies that would help eliminate the world's dependence on oil, natural gas and coal. But in 2013, clean technology investment funds are not trying to replace the fossil fuel industry, they're trying to help it by financing companies that can make mining and drilling less dirty. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 2:03:33 PM EST
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 12, 2012, file photo, the shadow of a windmill is pictured at his wind turbines park in Nordhorn, Germany. In the 2000s, large investors in so-called clean technology wanted to finance companies that would help eliminate the world's dependence on oil, natural gas and coal. But in 2013, clean technology investment funds are not trying to replace the fossil fuel industry, they're trying to help it by financing companies that can make mining and drilling less dirty. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 2:03:33 PM EST
FILE - In this Tuesday, May 2, 2006, file photo, the sun sets over a oil refinery in Tarragona, Spain. In the 2000s, large investors in so-called clean technology wanted to finance companies that would help eliminate the world's dependence on oil, natural gas and coal. But in 2013, clean technology investment funds are not trying to replace the fossil fuel industry, they're trying to help it by financing companies that can make mining and drilling less dirty.( AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 1:53:30 PM EST
In this March 29, 2013 photo, a worker uses a headset and microphone to communicate with coworkers over the din of pump trucks, at the site of a natural gas hydraulic fracturing and extraction operation run by the Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., outside Rifle, in western Colorado. Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade, but Old Energy is winning. Oil companies big and small have used technology to find a bounty of oil and natural gas so large that worries about running out have melted away. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 1:53:30 PM EST
In this March 29, 2013 photo, technicians inside a trailer direct the pressure and mix of water and chemicals pumped into an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. well during hydraulic fracturing, outside Rifle, in western Colorado. Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade, but Old Energy is winning. Oil companies big and small have used technology to find a bounty of oil and natural gas so large that worries about running out have melted away. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 1:53:30 PM EST
In this March 29, 2013 photo, a worker helps monitor water pumping pressure and temperature, at the site of a natural gas hydraulic fracturing and extraction operation run by Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., outside Rifle, in western Colorado. Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade, but Old Energy is winning. Oil companies big and small have used technology to find a bounty of oil and natural gas so large that worries about running out have melted away. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 1:53:30 PM EST
FILE- This Wednesday, July 27, 2011, file photo, shows the view of the well and fracking area beside a flat panel display showing data in the mobile command post of a hydraulic fracturing operation in Claysville, Pa. Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade, but Old Energy is winning. Oil companies big and small have used technology to find a bounty of oil and natural gas so large that worries about running out have melted away. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 1:08:32 PM EST
In this March 29, 2013 photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado. Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade, but Old Energy is winning. Oil companies big and small have used technology to find a bounty of oil and natural gas so large that worries about running out have melted away. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 1:08:32 PM EST
This Wednesday, July 27, 2011, photo, shows the computer screens and other monitors used by the drilling operator to drill into the Marcellus shale at a Range Resources well site in Washington, Pa. Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade, but Old Energy is winning. Oil companies big and small have used technology to find a bounty of oil and natural gas so large that worries about running out have melted away. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 4/28/2013 3:43:32 PM EST
In this Aug. 26, 2009 file photo, Kourtney Hardwick, BP Florida operations manager, looks over a methane gas well site east of Bayfield, Colo. The well pad now has three gas wells that have been drilled and are producing natural gas. A new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered estimates of how much of a potent greenhouse gas is being leaked by the natural gas industry. The EPA now estimates that in 2011 the natural gas industry released 10 percent less methane into the atmosphere than it did in 1990. The new figure comes after the EPA estimated last year that those methane admissions had risen about 15 percent since 1990. (AP Photo/Jerry McBride, File)
