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Space shuttle’s final journey will kill 400 trees

Space shuttle Endeavour has never been the greenest of projects — I mean, consider how much gas it takes to circle the planet 4,600 times. Sure, blah blah the majesty of the final frontier, but that thing’s tailpipe makes a Chinese factory look like a wind turbine. Now, even in retirement, Endeavour is managing to come up […]

Climate and energy get no love on day one of Democratic convention

Michelle Obama, Julian Castro, and other headliners generated a lot of energy -- just not the kind you can power a house or a car with.

The government can’t afford its greenhouse gas monitoring regimen anymore

NOAA spends about $6 million a year to monitor CO2 and other greenhouse gases -- or it used to, when it had money.

The Democratic Convention kicks off, its greenness in the eye of the beholder

The Democrats' platform is less green than it was four years ago -- but they have lots of composting and recycling bins at the convention center.

Romney attributes climate change to humans — but won’t make humans do anything about it

Mitt Romney says there's no point in curbing emissions given China's greenhouse gas output and theoretical impact on manufacturing jobs.

The futility of climatespotting: No matter what he says, Obama can’t make big moves on climate

Climate hawks have been reduced to "climatespotting," counting the number of times "climate change" is uttered by a politician. Given political gridlock, it's a pointless exercise.

Here’s the White House beer recipe

The White House has, as promised, released the recipe for its home-brewed honey ale -- and according to a professional brewer, it shouldn't be too hard to make at home.

BP thinks the Gulf is copacetic. The government disagrees. Tony Hayward doesn’t care.

BP is claiming in a civil suit that it's pretty much done cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico. The federal government's response: Like hell.

Mean Tasmanian devils get cancer; nice ones don’t

In the epic songs that Tasmanian devils sing in the future (assuming that Tasmanian devils can sing, and that there are any left to sing epic songs), this period will likely be known as one of suffering and retribution by some angry god for the unrighteous behavior that has spread among the devil population. Because […]

10 million pounds of maple syrup has mysteriously gone missing in Canada

It's not clear what thieves would want with that much maple syrup, unless they are Paul Bunyan, but whoever took the syrup -- worth more than $30 million -- must have put a lot of care and energy into the heist.