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Electricity shortages in Lebanon spark offshore natural gas exploration
In Lebanon, most people have learned to cope with unreliable electricity. But a long term solution to Lebanon’s power problem may lie offshore.Recently, neighboring Israel discovered an enormous...
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Gas drilling could take air out of offshore wind
I understand the power of Lake Erie wind as soon we’re out past the breakwaters of Cleveland Harbor. The waves make our 74-foot tugboat bob like a rubber toy in my preschooler’s bath tub.Before long,...
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Daily Rehearsal: Jason Segel drops by Second City
1. Jason Segel was all over town this weekend; he took Wrigleyville resident Chelsea Gill out on a date after her video requesting it went viral, and performed at Second City. Segel was in town to...
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Does electricity aggregation do enough for renewable energy?
When Chicagoans voted for electricity aggregation in 2012, becoming the largest city in the U.S. to do so, they gave the city power to negotiate a new price for electricity on their behalf.Pooling...
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EPA rolls back methane emissions from natural gas
In a revision to its sweeping inventory of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency scaled back its estimate for natural gas, stoking supporters’ claims that the...
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Breaking OPEC, and maybe the climate, with wood alcohol
America has become the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas,” according to President Obama, and one former director of the Central Intelligence Agency would like to use that fossil fuel war chest to break our...
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More on methane: EPA reexamines potency of greenhouse gas
In the debate surrounding the United States' natural gas resources, it is often noted that methane, the primary component of natural gas, is 21 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide....
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With fracking bill on Quinn's desk, environmental groups hold out hope for...
Amid a warbling Lowery organ rendition of “Build Me Up Buttercup” blasting from pre-game Wrigley Field, environmental groups gathered outside Wrigley View Rooftop to make their voices heard on pending...
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City’s power deal boosts wind energy
Two downstate wind farms will provide five percent of Chicago’s electricity, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office announced Tuesday, nearly doubling the share of wind power in the city’s electricity...
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Power struggle: Who’s your energy provider?
Curious City producers and reporters are usually hard at work answering your growing list of questions. But every now and then, an answer or even a listener comment stops us dead in our tracks, and...
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