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Bumps on the road to EV infrastructure in California

If California builds it, will drivers go electric?

Fossil fuels beat renewables in race for state and local incentives

The New York Times has pulled together data on state and city incentives for business, and we take a closer look at the energy subsidies.

Justice Department ditches Monsanto investigation

After almost three years of digging into Monsanto's potentially anticompetitive practices, the feds aren't saying why they're walking away.

The next big U.N. climate report will not include the massive effects of permafrost melt

The IPCC's upcoming report will ignore the feedback loop of melting permafrost, which prompts Climate Progress' Joe Romm to have a justifiable conniption.

Traffic signals for cyclists pop up nationwide

Traffic lights specifically designed for bike-riders provide a little more time to pedal through big, complex intersections.

An Ethiopian zoo has lions unlike any others on earth

Zookeepers were convinced that these lions were really something special. And it turns out, they were right.

Supreme Court takes on dirty water

The Supreme Court this week will hear three stormwater-runoff cases: two on logging roads in the Northwest, one on L.A.'s filthy outflow.

Dolphin at Sea World rises up and bites the hand that feeds him

Feeding the dolphins at Sea World is a totally fun, once-in-a-lifetime experience … until the dolphins decide they care more about eating the fish than the integrity of your arm.

Wanna know what’s in that fracking fluid? Tough

A Texas law requiring companies to disclose what's in fracking fluid has a loophole: If the info is a "trade secret," they don't have to tell.

1904 song encourages you to make out in the newly built subway

This scandalicious, vaguely suggestive song called the subway "a new lover's lane."