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Should Europe be fracking? CEPS Commentary, 5 October 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 Underlining the fact that shale gas, like all natural resources, can only be used once, Daniel Gros observes in this CEPS Commentary that the real issue is not whether this resource should be developed in Europe, but when it should be used: today or ...
Gros, Daniel.
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The Harms and Crimes of Fracking [PDF]
, 2023 A plethora of academic research into fracking for shale gas suggests the practice leads to a variety of social and environmental harms and crimes. Social harms involve the impacts that fracking has on the lives of local communities that adopt fracking ...
Lampkin, Jack
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A POLITIZAÇÃO “EXPLOSIVA” DO GÁS DE XISTO: contribuições críticas para o estudo do Fracking
Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2020 The controversial fracking method for shale gas extraction and its socio-environmental impacts has brought to light disputes over political decisions and capitalist state.
Benilson Borinelli +1 more
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Energies, 2017 Natural gas hydrate (NGH) concentrations hold large reserves of relatively pure unconventional natural gases, consisting mainly of methane. Depressurization is emerging as the optimum conversion technology for converting NGH in its reservoir to its ...
Chen Chen +6 more
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Community rights and energy politics in a pro-fracking Appalachian town
npj Climate ActionResearch shows that conservatives support fossil fuel extraction and distrust regulation. Yet scholarship overlooks where environmentalist and conservative interests may align—a question I explore through studying a rural, white, and conservative ...
Colin Jerolmack
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Forgoing Nuclear: Nuclear Power Plant Closures and Carbon Emissions in the United States
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of nuclear power plant decommissioning on electricity generation and carbon emissions in the United States. Using data on nuclear reactor closures in the United States between 1993 and 2022 and data on state‐level carbon emissions and electricity generation from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), this ...
Luke Petach
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), exposure to radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. Extant research that has reported that fracking activity increases the radon levels.
Yanqing Xu, Mounika Sajja, Ashok Kumar
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Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
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Shale fail: David Cameron has not gone 'all out' for fracking [PDF]
, 2015 First paragraph: David Cameron might have been forced into accepting several restrictions on fracking to avoid a Commons defeat, but one thing that has never appeared in doubt is the Conservative party leadership’s commitment to the practice.
Cairney, Paul
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