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Shell’s CEO Says Gas Will Lead Way
Posted by Boston Globe: Erin Ailworth on March 22nd, 2013
Boston Globe: Peter Voser, chief executive of the global energy company Royal Dutch Shell, said Thursday that the United States and the world need to increase the use of solar panels, wind turbines, and other renewable energy-generating sources to meet the growing demand for power, but abundant natural gas supplies present the most straightforward way to a cleaner future.
Natural gas has had a major resurgence in the United States, where a controversial and water-intensive drilling technique known as hydraulic...
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Obama taps two from Mass. for Energy, EPA posts
Posted by Boston Globe: Erin Ailworth on March 4th, 2013
Boston Globe: President Obama on Monday turned to Massachusetts for his nominees to the nation's top energy and environmental posts, tapping MIT physicist Ernest J. Moniz to lead the Department of Energy, and Boston-area native and former state environmental official Gina McCarthy as the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
"These two over here they're going to be making sure we're investing in American clean energy," Obama said at the White House, "that we're doing everything we can...