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Crappy solar panels threaten industry growth
The New York Times reports on a rise in defective solar panels. Experts blame the problems on cost-cutting Chinese firms.
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Walmart fined $82 million for dumping poisons
Walmart employees weren't trained on how to handle returned pesticides and other hazardous liquids, so they dumped them down drains and into the trash.
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Former EPA chief Lisa Jackson takes a job at Apple
Jackson will join the tech giant as vice president for environmental initiatives, to coordinate green activity across the company.
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What’s threatening utilities: Innovation at the edge of the grid (with dik-diks!)
Utilities are threatened by innovation at the "distribution edge" of the grid. Here's a closer look at those innovations and what they mean.
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U.S. trees burned in British coal plants count as renewable energy. WTF?
The U.K. subsidizes the burning of American-grown wood in British coal power plants and somehow calls it "green." How can this be?
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After a sunny launch, NYC’s bikeshare hits a few bumps
The bright blue bikes of NYC's new bikeshare program wheeled a mind-boggling 13,768 miles on their first outing. Don't expect that to happen every day.
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John Kerry’s wishful thinking on climate change
John Kerry told Ethiopians that the U.S. is below the Kyoto Protocol's greenhouse gas emissions targets. Yay! Unfortunately, that's not true. Boo!
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Climate change adaptation: So simple, a caveman could do it
A new study suggests that climate change propelled our ancestors to greatness. Could anthropogenic climate change do the same for us?
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Winning the Climate Change Challenge
A few weeks ago, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recorded CO2 levels in the atmosphere at almost 400 parts per million. Many scientists predicted that in reaching this level, we would see more intense storms (like Hurricanes Irene and Sandy); droughts (like the one suffocating the middle of the US for the past year); […]
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Amazon’s new headquarters will look like giant balls
Amazon's proposed new Seattle campus includes three glass domes filled with plants. Which sounds like an awesome place to work. But they also look a little ... well, you be the judge.
