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September 2010 Blog Posts (6)

In Era of Climate Change and Water Scarcity, Meeting National Energy Demand Confronts Major Impediments

Photo © Brent Stirton / Reportage by Getty Images for Circle of Blue

The All-American Canal, the main water conduit from the Colorado River into the Imperial Dam, flows through the Imperial Valley, Calif. The U.S. consumes about 100 billion…

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Added by Keith Schneider on September 29, 2010 at 20:00 — No Comments

Before Big China Climate Conference, New Senate Support For Clean Energy

I'll be in Beijing later this week, and then on to Tianjin to cover China's first UN-sponsored climate summit, which begins October 4. Before leaving, though, I wanted to note that on September 22, a group of Republican and Democratic Senators sent a rare bipartisan signal to the world that the United States has not abandoned the hard work of reducing climate emissions and speeding the clean energy transition. The group introduced… Continue

Added by Keith Schneider on September 28, 2010 at 17:30 — No Comments

The curious case of the BBC and climate change

Rumours that the British Broadcasting Corporation plans to cut its coverage of climate-change are a reminder that we need to find new and better ways to communicate about this issue.

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Added by Mike Shanahan on September 24, 2010 at 21:47 — No Comments

North Dakota's Unconventional Oil Boom and Scarce Water At Risk

Over at Circle of Blue, where I serve as senior editor, we've been working on Choke Point: U.S., a series of original articles about the tightening contest between rising energy demand and diminishing supplies of fresh water. In our latest chapter, we explored the big boom in oil and gas production on the northern Great Plains, where… Continue

Added by Keith Schneider on September 16, 2010 at 5:30 — No Comments