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News bites: California issues proposed fracking rules
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12/19/12 09:08 AM ET
California issued its first-ever draft rules on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Britain set a five-year plan for solar and biomass energy, Reuters reports.
And in New York, The Associated Press reports green groups are pressing the state to release details of a fracking and shale-gas drilling health impact study.
This year, U.S. oil production grew the most in one year since the first commercial well was drilled in 1859, Bloomberg notes.
A new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-led study of naturally occurring geological formations confirms global warming data from thermometers.
From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
A new compilation of temperature records etched into ice cores, old corals, and lake sediment layers reveals a pattern of global warming from 1880 to 1995 comparable to the global warming trend recorded by thermometers.
