Green Car Congress: Westport adds natural gas F-150 to lineup

Westport Innovations Inc. will offer the newly launched natural gas powered Ford F-150 featuring the Westport WiNG Power System in both the United States and Canada. (Earlier post.) Our customers have been anticipating the availability of a natural gas version...
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2013/08/westport-20130802.htm

You Can Thank The Koch Brothers For The Big, Dirty Cloud Floating Over Detroit | ThinkProgress

A large black cloud spotted over the Detroit River last weekend is confirmed to be petroleum coke, a byproduct of tar sands refining, owned by Koch Carbon. The post You Can Thank The Koch Brothers For The Big, Dirty Cloud Floating Over Detroit appeared first on ThinkProgress.    
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/01/2392481/kochs-coke-cloud

Gulf Rig Fire is Deja Vu for Fishermen Still Reeling from BP Disaster | Rocky Kistner's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC: When the Hercules Offshore Inc. gas well  blew and caught fire  last week, spewing natural gas and flames into the air 50 miles off the Gulf coast, many in the nearby fishing communities had another sickening feeling of déjà vu. It's...
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/rkistner/three_years_after_they_plug

Josh Fox: “Democracy itself has become contaminated” - Salon.com

The director of “Gasland Part II” on the rising movement against fracking    
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/01/josh_fox_%e2%80%9cdemocracy_itself_has

Fracking and Marcellus Shale Mining | The Energy Collective

It easy to talk about the shale gas revolution in the abstract and forget that it is the cumulative result of thousands of operations in locations across the country. It combines the technological marvel of precisely planned drilling with the efforts of skilled workers on the surface.
http://theenergycollective.com/geoffrey-styles/255566/first-hand-view-

Can a Carbon Tax Work Without Hurting the Economy? Ask British Columbia : Climate Desk

Five years in, BC carbon tax has successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions in a stable economy. Carbon emissions have an unavoidable cost. When we burn fossil fuels and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it increases the greenhouse effect. The resulting climate change has costs, for ex
http://climatedesk.org/2013/08/can-a-carbon-tax-work-without-hurting-t

Algae startup Sapphire Energy pays off its loan for algae farm Tech News and Analysis

Algae fuel startup Sapphire Energy says it's reached a milestone: it's paid back a large loan to the U.S. government. Some energy-focused startups are actually doing OK.
http://gigaom.com/2013/07/31/algae-startup-sapphire-energy-pays-off-it