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Falling Gasoline Use Means United States Can Just Say No to New Pipelines and Food-to-Fuel
By Janet Larsen Freeing America from its dependence on oil from unstable parts of the world is an admirable goal, but many of the proposed solutions—including the push for more home-grown biofuels and for the construction of the new Keystone XL pipeline to transport Canadian tar sands oil to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast—are […]
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How much is a beachfront home in the Sandy-ravaged Rockaways?
Homes ripped apart by Sandy are proving to be magnets for bargain hunters -- but not everyone is getting a good deal.
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You can tour a Fukushima ghost town on Google Street View
Now that its 21,000 residents have been evacuated, Namie-Machi is full of empty streets and ruined buildings, and you can see what that's like with your own eyes.
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How to power America with renewables on the cheap: Build a shit ton of wind and solar capacity
The U.S. could get virtually all of its electricity from clean sources by building a “seemingly excessive” amount of capacity, a new study finds.
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Keystone komics: The incredible, illustrated history of the Keystone XL oil pipeline
Ever wonder who cooked up the idea of digging up all of Canada’s tar sands and piping them across the continent? All of your questions are answered here, cartoon style.
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IMF says global subsidies to fossil fuels amount to $1.9 trillion a year … and that’s probably an underestimate
A new IMF study finds that global fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1.9 trillion a year. But the real truth could be more eye-popping yet.
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China’s finless porpoises are going extinct
In over 2,000 miles of the Yangtze river, the World Wildlife Fund found only 380 of these smiley critters.
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The EPA Must Protect Our Water From Coal Pollution
Here’s a pretty shocking fact: While many of us know that coal-fired power plants create significant air pollution, it turns out they’re one of our biggest water polluters, too. In fact, as we’ve developed technologies that take more toxins like mercury out of coal plant smokestacks, that pollution isn’t just disappearing. Much of it is […]
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Walmart is ‘crowdsourcing’ by getting customers to make its deliveries
We have a different buzzword for this plan: "cheaping out."
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What’s inside this squid? Oh my god, it’s a bomb!
A fisherman found a bomb in a squid. No. The squid is not OK.
