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Time for Congress to Act and Save Clean Energy Jobs
Today, the US Senate is casting a vote critical to the future of the U.S. wind industry. Wind power has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, and the wind industry now employs more than 80,000 Americans and generates enough electricity to power 15 million homes. Wind is providing affordable, reliable electricity from coast […]
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Smoggy Chinese city offers residents bags of fresh air
Up to 20 people could slurp clean air at a time. One woman even said it made her baby kick.
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Like some dust bowl with your grain belt?
How crop insurance is subsidizing the conversion of prairie grassland to cornfields -- and seeding a dismal future.
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Amazon and Twitter are dirty dirty scoundrels, says Greenpeace
Amazon and Twitter each got three F’s and one D in a new Greenpeace report on energy efficiency. See ya in summer school, suckas!
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California’s cap-and-trade program pays loggers to clearcut old-growth forests
Idiotic, right? That's why enviros are calling on the state to change its rules.
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Biking the Iditarod? Climate change makes for faster times
The Iditarod Invitational -- a 1,000-mile bike and foot race in Alaska -- is all about snow. Climate change means contestants may be seeing less and less of it.
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This 92-year-old who got arrested for protesting coal is our new hero
Bill Ryan is a World War II vet, climate activist, and total badass.
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How can we deal with ocean acidification? Step one: Study it.
A group of government agencies have released a strategic research plan for ocean acidification. Stop yawning, this is important!
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Ask Umbra: Is it OK to recycle bottles that have been full of chemicals?
A reader wonders if motor oil and cleaners could contaminate her recycling. Umbra can hardly container self.
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You’ve never seen an LED lamp like this
The lighted sheet looks like a magical page from an unpublished Harry Potter book. (Or a glow-in-the-dark Barbie hammock.)
