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• Green Fracking? 5 Technologies for Cleaner Shale Energy

  "After all, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in which high-pressure chemically treated water is used to crack rock formations and release trapped oil and gas, is a dirty term to many environmentalists. Critics decry the practice for consuming vast amounts of fresh water, creating toxic liquid waste, and adding to the atmosphere's greenhouse gas burden, mostly because of increased risk of leaks of the potent heat-trapping gas, methane. (See related quiz, "What You Don't Know About Natural Gas.") "

  tags: fracking oil gas energy unitedstates energysecurity

• Two Egyptian officers killed in shootout with militants - CNN.com

  "(CNN) -- Gunmen killed two Egyptian military personnel and injured a third when security forces raided a militant hideout on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said. "

  tags: egypt islam militants politics northafrica mena middleeast

• More than 100 immigrants found at suspected stash house in Texas - CNN.com

  "(CNN) -- Police in Houston rescued more than 100 immigrants Wednesday from a suspected stash house where they were being held against their will. "

  tags: immigration texas immigrationreform unitedstates northamerica

• Fed moves economic goalposts - Mar. 19, 2014

  "The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will continue to gradually withdraw economic stimulus, but decided to move its goalposts for raising interest rates. At the conclusion of Janet Yellen's first meeting as chair, the central bank announced a decision to reduce monthly bond purchases by $10 billion, down to $55 billion a month starting in April."

  tags: fed stimulus monetarypolicy fiscalpolicy unitedstates yellen

• Chicago confronts dirty bonanza of Canadian tar sand boom - FT.com

  "A bulldozer rumbles over a mountain of fine black powder amid the abandoned shells of long-shuttered steel mills in a poor neighbourhood on the far southeast side of Chicago. "

  tags: chicago canada oil gas koch industry pollution

• US Pacific Fleet commander warns Asia it risks Crimea-like crisis - FT.com

  "The commander of the US Pacific Fleet has hit out at China’s “revanchist tendencies” and warned that Asia-Pacific nations must forsake “unilateral actions and inflammatory rhetoric” or risk stumbling into a Crimea-like crisis that would damage the global economy. "

  tags: us military unitedstates china asia balanceofpower russia crimea

• Penguin Random House buys Santillana’s trade and consumer arm - FT.com

  "Penguin Random House has agreed to buy the trade and consumer publishing arm of Santillana, the Spanish and Portuguese language publisher, for €72m, as the world's largest publishing house by sales seeks to increase its footprint in emerging markets. "

  tags: penguin randomhouse publishing spain unitedstates

• Palestine considers backing full boycott of Israel if talks fail - FT.com

  "US efforts to break the impasse in Middle East peace talks have brought no agreement on the major issues dividing the two sides, and the Palestinians are making contingency plans for an expected failure of the negotiations, a senior Palestinian official said. "

  tags: palestine israel revolution colonialism imperialism zionism

• Israel attacks Syrian military targets - FT.com

  "Israel said its air force bombed Syrian government targets on Wednesday in response to an earlier attack on its soldiers, marking the country’s biggest publicly acknowledged military strike against its neighbour since the civil war against Bashar al-Assad’s regime began three years ago. "

  tags: israel syria war revolution protest imperialism

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