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Five years after Tennessee coal-slurry disaster, EPA has produced no new rules
In December 2008, a million gallons of fly-ash sludge polluted Tennessee land and rivers. Since then, the EPA has done little to protect Americans from similar accidents.
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Your cable box is a vampire, but it’s about to get more efficient
The Department of Energy struck a deal with the pay-TV industry to make DVRs and other set-top boxes suck up less power.
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How to land a green job in 2014
Our prognosticator has traveled throughout the green employment community and returned with some predictions to get you going.
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Meals with wheels: A fresh food movement rolls into Boston
Fresh Food Generation keeps it local, even in winter -- and affordable too. Here are a few of their secret ingredients.
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First oil shale mine in U.S. is coming to Utah
As if we didn’t already have enough filthy, inefficient, unconventional oil-extraction techniques in use in North America, here’s one more.
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Parisian artists gift-wrapped the inside of a subway car
Why? Just because they thought it would be fun.
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Stick it to ’em: Scientists call for labeling tar-sands oil
The E.U. is considering a system to label gasoline according to how much carbon it emits. Oil companies and Canada don't like the idea.
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Watch a blizzard bury a backyard in snow in 15 seconds
Here's your cocoa-ready, wintry time-lapse video of Blizzard Nemo. (Just keep sledding, just keep sledding...)
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Christmas lights have toxic chemicals all over them
A mass-manufactured product meant for a holiday associated with goodwill towards fellow men is still a mass-manufactured product.
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Fracking company finds new way to screw over the environment
A subsidiary of fracking giant Chesapeake Energy is being fined $3.2 million for water pollution caused by sloppy construction practices.
