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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.
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Superstorm Sandy hit Superfund sites, spread toxic pollution
Superstorm Sandy took a toll on East Coast Superfund sites, waterways and more. Cleanup is underway but the full impact is not yet known.
