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Chicago’s notorious Fisk and Crawford coal plants go offline
Chicago will no longer be the only major U.S. city with two coal plants operating within its borders, and that means vast improvements in the health of local residents.
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Earthquake! Quick, everyone into the $6,000 earthquake-proof bed!
When there is an earthquake most people run to a table or a doorway to ride it out. But if the people at Shinto Industries have their way, the new go-to destination for seismic activity will be this bed, made out of aged cedar and reinforced with special metal fittings.
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Hapless Shell inches forward with drilling in the Arctic
With clearance from the Department of the Interior to proceed, Shell will shortly start digging underwater holes in the Earth.
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Curtain rises on California’s planned carbon market
From big emitters to tomato tinners, over 100 California businesses got their first taste of cap-and-trade. Here's how it works.
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Umbra’s second helpings: The most sustainable forms of birth control
Birth control shouldn't be controversial. But could it be greener? Umbra pulls out an answer.
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Free-market hypocrisy: Why do we hold renewables to different standards?
Calls for a "free-market" approach to energy ignore the fact that recent incentives for renewables are no different than the perks fossil fuels and nuclear energy have enjoyed for decades.
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Romney treats climate as a punchline
In the final speech of the party's convention, the Republican candidate mocks President Obama's pledge to deal with climate change.
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Energy and environment in the GOP platform: They said what?
We read the whole 62-page Republican platform so you don't have to. Here are the good bits, by which we mean the bad bits.
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These are basically treasure maps for renewable energy
Detailed maps of the best places for solar, wind, and geothermal are basically guaranteed to make you rich.
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Obama calls for massive push on industrial efficiency
The president set a goal of 40 gigawatts of combined heat and power (which we explain) in industrial facilities by 2020.
