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Energy Secretary Moniz says Obama is not waging war on coal
Ernest Moniz insists that fossil fuels, including coal, will remain a significant part of America's energy mix for quite some time.
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Hawaiians fight back against GMO experiments
Monsanto and other agro-giants use Hawaii as a testing ground for GMO crops and accompanying agricultural chemicals. Local lawmakers are trying to rein them in.
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Follow live tweets from the world’s first tweeting honey badger
Honey badger just don't care ... about anything except live-tweeting from the Johannesburg Zoo.
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“Catastrophic failure”: Adventures in car sharing, part 2
Turns out that, as a business proposition, the sharing economy can be a pretty risky one.
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Now you can help expand Google Maps, by lugging a weird heavy camera around for free
You never seem to have enough luggage when you're climbing the Himalayas. Now you could haul a camera for a massive corporation for no compensation whatsoever!
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BART strikes at the heart of a region’s planning problems
The strike has affected about 400,000 area commuters, but it hasn't paralyzed the Bay Area -- because everyone here loves their cars.
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Oil trains and terminals could be coming to the Northwest
Plans are afoot to build the region's biggest oil shipping terminal in Vancouver, Wash. -- and that's just one of many proposals for moving more oil through the Northwest by rail and ship.
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What’s up with Gina McCarthy’s nomination to head the EPA?
Obama nominated her four months ago, but Republicans have been holding up the process. Might they finally be ready to let it proceed?
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Oregon bans some insecticides following bee deaths
After 50,000 bumblebees were wiped out by pesticide spraying, Oregon decided to outlaw use of the offending products for six months.
