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Muddy today? This beautifully simple bike fender can be installed and removed in seconds
It's made of recycled polypropylene plastic, too.
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Need for coal leasing moratorium reinforced by Department of Interior Inspector General report
A new report from the Department of Interior’s Inspector General highlights several problems with the way DOI gives taxpayer-owned coal to companies like Peabody, Arch, and Cloud Peak Energy, including flaws in the way DOI calculates fair market value (FMV) and a failure to consider increasing coal exports. The report reinforces the need for a […]
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This is the longest 100 percent recycled bridge in the country
OK, it’s still not very long -- only 24.6 feet. But it's sturdy! And it’s 80 percent post-consumer waste!
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Island in the sun: Why are our cities heating up faster than everywhere else?
Urban heat islands are considerably hotter than their more rural surrounds. Here's why.
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Coal companies get sweetheart deals on federal leases, shortchange taxpayers
The Bureau of Land Management is undercharging coal companies for mining rights, costing the U.S. treasury tens of millions of dollars, says the Interior Department's inspector general.
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Bloomberg unveils ambitious plan to protect NYC from climate change
The plan, estimated to cost $20 billion, covers everything from erecting bulkheads and levees to retrofitting old buildings to protecting the city’s power infrastructure.
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Here’s how the world can get on track with climate goals
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and climate talks continue to fail, but there are still things we can do to avoid climate apocalypse. Here are four of them.
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Nuclear Power is So 20th Century
When I was born in the 1950s, nuclear power was said to be “too cheap to meter.” Although few and far between, disasters at Fukushima and Chernobyl have laid waste to that claim and, for that matter, entire cities. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, herself a nuclear physicist, led the charge to eliminate her nation’s nuclear […]
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Don’t burn people for fuel. Is this really that hard?
Who's writing about setting people on fire to meet our energy needs? Oh, it's Glenn Beck. What a surprise.
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NOAA weather-monitoring program hit by sequester cuts
After its plan to meet sequester demands by furloughing weather forecasters was nixed, NOAA is proposing to take funds away from a state-of-the-art satellite program.
