Natural gas leaks come under scrutiny, raise questions on climate impact - The Washington Post

As natural gas production expands in the United States, do its benefits for the climate far outweigh its dangers?...University of Colorado research scientist Gabrielle Petron, who also works in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s global monitoring division, said the rate of increasing atmospheric methane concentrations has accelerated tenfold since 2007.

'I make £4,000 a year being energy efficient' - Telegraph

[caption] Harold Armitage even charges his electric Mitsubishi i-Miev car with his home's solar electricity.  [This article sort of encourages us to believe in a fairy tale where this UK resident completely powers his house and his car with his roof-mounted solar panels, then sells the "excess" solar power for a nice profit.] 

Think tank says EPA helps friends' FOIAs, while foes' are delayed or blocked | WashingtonExaminer.com

Environmental Protection Agency officials are making an "on-going practice" of "near-immediate turnaround to provide records to environmentalist pressure groups," while imposing "starkly disparate treatment of groups with different perspectives but which are otherwise similarly situated," a conservative think tank charges today in a unusually lengthy Freedom of Information Act request."

In the 21-page request, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner said "the public particularly deserves to know whether EPA is singling out groups it does not perceive as friendly to EPA's agenda for discriminatory treatment, in the form of denying fee waivers, placing a barrier to access at minimum to delay and possibly denying access to public records."