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America is at a crossroads when it comes to determining our energy future.

Armed with new technology and funded by record profits, the oil and gas industry is developing new ways to find supplies: extracting natural gas by fracking; squeezing oil from dirty tar sands; erecting drilling rigs in the most remote places of our earth.

Yet today’s boom in oil and gas production also comes at a time of ever-increasing energy alternatives, from biofuels and electric cars to wind farms and concentrated solar.

As we debate the role of domestic fossil fuel resources in our energy future, there has never been a more important time for

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