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Union of Concerned Scientists Report Finds One-Third of US Coal Plants Ripe For Retirement
Today our friends at the Union of Concerned Scientists released an impressive report showing that as many as one-third of U.S. coal plants are due for retirement because they are outdated, lack modern pollution controls, and can no longer compete in the marketplace with other forms of energy. The report details the range of up […]
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Lame duck Congress may decide whether to save lame duck wind industry
If they don't, it would be pretty... well, you know.
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Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist thinks a carbon tax might make sense — with some caveats [UPDATED]
Grover Norquist's half-hearted endorsement of a carbon tax makes it slightly more likely to happen, but it probably still won't.
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99 red balloons can power 4,500 homes
This wins for most charming solar concept based on a one-hit wonder from the ‘80s, and maybe most charming solar concept ever.
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Farm runoff leads to a rise in eight-legged frogs
The mutations are the work of a parasite -- the flatworm Ribeiroia ondatrae.
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Brazil plans to save endangered animals by cloning them
Pronto! Apontar! Clonar! (That's ready, set, clone, in Portuguese).
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You be the pessimist! Here’s why the election gives me hope
What if grassroots activists joined with green D.C. insiders, got the president to kill the Keystone pipeline, and put a price on carbon? Bill McKibben explains why the election should make us all optimists.
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Will Obama’s second term bring food system wins — or more of the same?
Obama didn't impress food system reformers in his first four years. Will this term be any different?
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Climate change threatens to wipe out your coffee
Arabica coffee beans could be extinct in the wild by 2080.
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With pipelines delayed, tar-sands oil shifts onto trains
Protests have stalled construction of new tar-sands pipelines, so oil companies are now shipping their goop south by rail.
