Marketplace: This is the first U.N. climate change meeting in the Persian Gulf, and the oil-rich location is bound to spur discussion on fossil fuels. There have been big changes in energy, as the U.S. and Canada have developed the tar sands, shale oil, and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. Just a few years ago, about half of America's power plants ran on coal. Now there's a massive switch to natural gas because there's so much of if. The fuel burns cleaner, emits about half as much greenhouse gas as coal....
URL: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/un-climate-meeting-focus-fossil-fuels
Enclosure: http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/marketplace/segments/2012/12/04/marketplace_segment02_20121204_64.mp3
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