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Dozens of companies cast 407 bids totaling $1.6 billion for 320 blocks covering more than 1.7 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227, held in New Orleans Wednesday.

GreenHunter Energy Inc., which last month saw its water handling facility in an Ohio town stormed by dozens of protestors, now faces another type of protest, with a southeastern Ohio community group demanding that the U.S. Coast Guard study the potential environmental impacts of the company’s proposed hydraulic fracturing (fracking) wastewater transfer station on the Ohio River in New Matamoras, OH.

On a 6-3 vote after dozens of citizens and business representatives spoke, the Colorado Springs, CO, City Council late Tuesday night approved rules to allow the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in oil and natural gas drilling, mirroring similar statewide rules.

A report by the group Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States asserts that there is a link between dozens of small earthquakes in the Barnett Shale of Texas and wastewater injection wells that support natural gas drilling.

A report published Monday by the group Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States asserts that there is a link between dozens of small earthquakes in Texas’ Barnett Shale and wastewater injection wells that support natural gas drilling.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) said Wednesday the dunes sagebrush lizard (DSL) does not need to be listed on the Endangered Species Act after New Mexico and Texas voluntarily agreed to protect the animal’s habitat.

Dozens of new natural gas vehicles (NGV), many of which are heavy duty trucks and tractors that can be designed for compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) started off Thursday on a cross-country road trip from Long Beach, CA, at the end of the three-day Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo 2012 conference.

Dozens of applications for oil and gas wells and ancillary facilities in the Dakota Prairie and Little Missouri National Grasslands in North Dakota and South Dakota are among the infrastructure projects that will be expedited through permitting and environmental review processes, President Obama announced last week.

Dozens of applications for oil and gas wells and ancillary facilities in the Dakota Prairie and Little Missouri National Grasslands in North Dakota and South Dakota are among the infrastructure projects that will be expedited through permitting and environmental review processes, President Obama announced Tuesday.