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United Airline’s Top Customers Call Company Out Over Climate Pollution Misdeeds
Some of United Airline’s most valuable and loyal customers are calling out the company today over its prolonged fight to stop new regulations aimed at reducing global climate pollution emissions from the airline industry. And these aren’t your everyday frequent fliers we’re talking about, twenty are members of United’s Global Services flyer program – a privilege bestowed […]
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A drunk person, a child, and a blind man get into a car. Who’s driving?
Here's what the intersection of car-share programs and driverless cars could look like.
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China’s Growing Hunger for Meat Shown by Move to Buy Smithfield, World’s Leading Pork Producer
By Janet Larsen Half the world’s pigs—more than 470 million of them—live in China, but even that may not be enough to satisfy the growing Chinese appetite for meat. While meat consumption in the United States has fallen more than 5 percent since peaking in 2007, Chinese meat consumption has leapt 18 percent, from 64 […]
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Why Master Limited Partnerships are a Lousy Policy for Solar, Wind, and Taxpayers
If you follow the renewable energy industry and haven’t been sleeping, then you’ve probably heard about one of the few pieces of federal legislation purported to help clean energy that’s actually moving: expanding Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to cover wind and solar energy. (H.R.1696) This is not a good thing. MLPs originated in 1986, when […]
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One meteorologist’s come-to-Jesus moment on climate change
Like many TV weather forecasters, the Weather Channel's Stu Ostro didn't believe in climate change -- until extreme weather and scientific evidence changed his mind.
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The Obama climate move that nobody noticed
With a behind-the-scenes accounting change, the Obama administration has justified more government regulation to fight climate change.
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Warming oceans are killing baby puffins
Rising temperatures off the East Coast are driving away herring, which is making it hard for puffins to find food for their young.
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Big Win in Nevada on Clean Energy, Retiring Dirty Coal Power
There is big news out of Nevada that will echo around the nation. Late Monday night the Nevada Assembly passed a bill clearing the path to retire the polluting Reid Gardner coal plant. The bipartisan bill is now headed for an expected signature from Governor Brian Sandoval. For the Moapa Band of Paiutes and so […]
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How to fix the climate, in one simple flowchart
Will eating fewer hamburgers help? How about dumping iron into the ocean? Here's your one-stop shop for the answers.
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California, Illinois lawmakers welcome frackers
Legislatures in both states rejected calls for a moratorium on fracking. But in Illinois, a new bill will at least impose serious regulations on the practice.
