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Gas prices hit new high in California yesterday and today and probably tomorrow
Why should you care? Because California is where celebrities live. Other celebrity gossip inside!
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BP sells disaster site to pay bills from another disaster
BP is selling its refinery in Texas where an explosion killed 15 people in 2005. The money will go to clean up the Deepwater Horizon mess. The big wheel of life keeps turning.
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PSA: Drinking liquid nitrogen is a bad idea
“Duh,” you say? Tell that to a British teen who just had to have her stomach removed.
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‘Talking tree’ constantly posts about its lunch on Facebook
This tree is wired with sensors so it can tweet about rain, noise levels, and air quality. Yeah, it's boring, but how many trees can tweet?
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Why are French bees making blue and green honey?
French bees don't have much better taste than American bees, it turns out.
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Plans to ship coal to China face a hurdle: The West Coast
The politics of fossil fuel exports from Washington and Oregon are a little different than from Texas.
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Could Washington state elect the greenest governor in the nation?
Democrat Jay Inslee, a climate hawk and clean-energy booster, is in a tight race with Rob McKenna, a Republican who acknowledges the threat of climate change.
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A beautiful, fragrant garden made from the poop of tennis players
The Riverside Clay Tennis Organization is in the process of creating some super eco toilets that magically turn poop into flowers. Well, that's a little bit of an exaggeration. But they kind of do.
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Hardcore pumpkin: Should I buy an organic jack-o’-lantern?
As mountains of cheap, industrially grown carving pumpkins beckon, what is a conscious, holiday-loving girl to do?
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Ask Umbra: How green is my laundry detergent?
A reader says his landlord’s fancy new washing machine requires special soap. Umbra tells him not to get his knickers in a twist.
