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How to make natural gas more climate-friendly
There are easy steps the gas industry could take to plug methane leaks, but they probably won't do it until the EPA makes them.
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That old, rusty underwater pipeline? Nothing to worry about!
Michiganders are loudly voicing their concerns about a 60-year-old oil pipeline that runs along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac.
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New York could turn its trash into giant floating compost islands
Here's one quirky solution to NYC's problem of trucking waste to landfills out of state.
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Tied to the rusty White House fence: Two Keystone protesters’ arrest odyssey
Sunday's civil disobedience action put the emphasis on "civil," but the arrested students intend to keep raising their voices.
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Generation Gap: Wind Opens Big Lead over Nuclear in China
By J. Matthew Roney In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent. The 135 terawatt-hours of Chinese wind-generated electricity in 2013 would be […]
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It only takes otters 25 years to recover from an oil spill
This means marine life could fully recover from the BP oil spill in ... let’s see ... 2035!
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Henry David Thoreau would have given “12 Years a Slave” the Oscar for best picture, too
The 19th-century naturalist and political philosopher argued that slavery laid waste to the American landscape -- and not just in the South.
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Obsoleting Bertha: Viaduct traffic plummets
Sightline’s Clark Williams-Derry has a terrific post on the astounding decline in traffic on the Alaskan Way Viaduct since Seattle’s Big Dig II began. Trip volumes are down 40% in just 3 years! Clark analyzes the remarkable trend and concludes: At this point, nobody knows if [tunnel-boring machine] Bertha will ever get moving again, let alone complete […]
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Naples is cleaning up its streets by DNA-testing dog poop and tracking down the perpetrators
We Yanks aren’t off the hook, either -- communities in more than 40 states are testing dog dung to help stamp out crap.
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Iron Maiden singer will fly around the world in a giant hybrid airship
Iron Maiden singer, pilot, and hero Bruce Dickinson will circumnavigate the globe in the biggest thing that's ever flown -- a huge hybrid balloon.
