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Frackers are flooding the atmosphere with climate-warming methane
Two new studies reveal the staggering disconnect between actual methane emissions and official EPA estimates.
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Brits do so much coke, it’s in their drinking water now
Drinking water ever so slightly tainted with coke won’t put any extra pep in your step.
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Senate Republicans torpedo a non-controversial, bipartisan energy-efficiency bill
The bill doesn't promote fossil fuels or hamstring the EPA, so GOP senators refused to let it move forward.
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It’s Getting Ha in Here: A Grist happy hour with Eugene Mirman
If you're in Seattle, join us on May 22 for a drink, a joke, and happy hour snacks with comedian Eugene Mirman.
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The West Antarctic glaciers are breaking up with us
Latest studies show that the ice sheet's gradual disappearance is now irreversible, along with catastrophic, if slow, sea-level rise.
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For $110, the toilet bike will help you get laid
Check out this adult tricycle-toilet hybrid. Swears the seller, “When I rode this thing around town, I was a freaking chick magnet!” YEAH, BUDDY.
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John Oliver and Bill Nye show why cable news climate “debates” are so ridiculous
Warning: If you watch this, you'll never be able to watch a climate debate again without rolling your eyes.
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Oil company poisons town; judge says it doesn’t owe its victims a penny
Citgo was found guilty of criminal violations of the Clean Air Act, but apparently doling out damages would have been far too complicated.
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The high cost of the solar middleman
If there’s no such thing as a free lunch, then how can Americans get solar on their roof with “zero money down” and lower their electric bill? Solar leasing, as it’s often called, is a clever market solution to poor federal and state policy design that otherwise requires Americans to do financial acrobatics to power […]
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Why solar net metering beats a value-of-solar tariff every time
In short: Don't fix what isn't broken.
