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Albany, NY – Hundreds of youth vote leaders will converge in Albany this weekend for Power Shift New York, to demand Governor Cuomo ban fracking and build support for a clean energy economy.

Power Shift New York keynotes, which are open to the public, include acclaimed environmentalists and political leaders, including:

Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org

Josh Fox, Director of Gasland

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, recipient of the Heinz Award for the environment

Dominic Frongillo, the youngest elected Town Councilor of Caroline, NY

Hosted by the Green Umbrella: NY Youth for a Just and Sustainable Future, the conference will focus on building a movement to ban fracking and bring in a clean energy economy.

“Thousands upon thousands of people have called on Governor Cuomo to ban fracking, and at Power Shift NY we’re bringing those voices together” said J. Reed Steberger, a lead organizer of the Green Umbrella, “hundreds of youth vote leaders are coming together to demand Governor Cuomo stand with us to ban fracking, and join us in supporting innovative measures to build a clean energy economy here in New York.”

The conference will close with a major march on the Capitol to demand Governor Cuomo stand with the youth vote by banning fracking, and supporting ambitious measures to bring in a clean energy economy.

WHO: Hundreds of youth vote leaders, and environmental and political leaders including Bill McKibben of 350.org, Josh Fox, Director of Gasland, Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Heinz Award Winner, Dominic Frongillo, young elected official from Caroline, NY.

WHAT: Major mobilization and conference of youth vote leaders working to ban fracking and bring in the clean energy economy.

WHEN: Friday-Monday, April 27-29. March and rally is on Monday morning.

WHERE: The majority of the conference will be held at Hotel Albany, 40 Lodge St

Friday and Saturday keynote addresses will be held at Grand Street Community Arts Center, 68 Grand Street, from 7-9 PM.

Monday’s March & Rally is beginning at Riverside Park at 10AM and will finish out at West Capital Park at 12 PM with speakers until 2.

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K.C. Alvey
Cornell ’12 Natural Resources
Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative (TCCPI)- Intern
Green Umbrella: NY Youth for a Just and Sustainable Future – State Coordinator
kca27@cornell.edu
516-592-7752

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Greater focus needed on methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure

April 10, 2012

Greater focus needed on methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure.

Natural gas is seen by many as the future of American energy: a fuel
that can provide energy independence and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions in the process. However, there has also been confusion about
the climate implications of increased use of natural gas for electric
power and transportation. We propose and illustrate the use of
technology warming potentials as a robust and transparent way to
compare the cumulative radiative forcing created by alternative
technologies fueled by natural gas and oil or coal by using the best
available estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from each fuel cycle
(i.e., production, transportation and use). We find that a shift to
compressed natural gas vehicles from gasoline or diesel vehicles leads
to greater radiative forcing of the climate for 80 or 280 yr,
respectively, before beginning to produce benefits. Compressed natural
gas vehicles could produce climate benefits on all time frames if the
well-to-wheels CH4 leakage were capped at a level 45–70% below current
estimates. By contrast, using natural gas instead of coal for electric
power plants can reduce radiative forcing immediately, and reducing
CH4 losses from the production and transportation of natural gas would
produce even greater benefits. There is a need for the natural gas
industry and science community to help obtain better emissions data
and for increased efforts to reduce methane leakage in order to
minimize the climate footprint of natural gas.