May 4, 2012

Sierra Club Escalates the Natural Gas War

Amy Harder, National Journal


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The rocky relationship between one of the world’s most influential environmental groups and the natural-gas industry is headed toward full-scale combat. The Sierra Club is intensifying its natural-gas reform campaign and renaming it “Beyond Gas. . ."

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