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New Jersey wants to dump toxic waste on a site that was just cleaned up
Why? Possibly because it'll be profitable for people with political connections.
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Marcellus energy development could pave over an area bigger than Delaware
A new study predicts 106,004 new gas wells will be drilled in the Marcellus region.
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Recycled plastic doodads make instant divided bike lanes
We were going to like the Armadillo even if it didn't have a very practical purpose.
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EPA’s new pesticide rules: Will they make a difference?
Farmworker training and rules for underage labor are valuable, but it's going to take more to change our chemical-laced system.
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Volcanoes are giving us a breather from climate change
Someone, at some point, must have made the right sacrifice to the right volcano god.
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Subway cake fairy is either the best or worst commuter ever
Would someone giving away free homemade cake on the subway make you grin -- or make you call 911? (ANTHRAX!!!!1)
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L.A. and California lawmakers move to impose fracking moratoriums
Some leaders in Los Angeles and Sacramento are fed up with fracking, which sucks up lots of water even as the state is suffering through a drought.
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Carbon dioxide pollution just killed 10 million scallops
An oyster producer in British Columbia has lost three years' worth of bivalves -- the latest in a growing line of commercial shellfish collapses linked to ocean acidification.
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Are Electric Utilities Already Dead?
For the last six months, the energy news sphere (perhaps led by the Edison Electric Institute) has been rife with a discussion about the threat to the utility business from distributed energy like local solar, as their customers shift to getting their own power from nearby renewable resources. Reports and news stories – e.g. “Adapt […]
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These photos give a glimpse of the forbidden urban underground
Logan Hicks sneaks into abandoned subway tunnels so you don’t have to.
