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Greenland on the rocks, renewable energy gets stiffed again

The melting of Greenland could send cities like New Orleans under the sea. The $26 billion teacher-saving bill is bad news clean energy.

2010's extreme heat: A window on our future

According to a new National Wildlife Federation report, the sweltering summer of 2010 could be considered mild compared to the typical summers of the future.

From Big Energy to Congress, the money pipeline never closes

A new website lets us follow the prodigious flow of cash from oil companies to the politicians who do their bidding.

Barack Obama, cleantech venture capitalist?

Mike Dorning of Bloomberg Businessweek has a clever way of looking at the nation's most powerful cleantech investor.

How much do you spend on transport? New web app aims to show you

The cost of a home is easy to keep in mind. The cost of getting to and from it is not. A new web tool aims to shed light on transportation costs and nudge Americans away from sprawl.

The fate of mass transit in an age of deficit hysteria

As deficit hysteria mounts, the bad economy is derailing what little green infrastructure we have. Now it's really time for greens to get active in the economic-policy debate, or risk being stuck with outdated technologies like the car.

Obama administration sued over secrecy surrounding nuclear power subsidies

After President Obama announced back in February that his administration would provide $8.3 billion in taxpayer-financed loan guarantees to the Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors at its Plant Vogtle in Georgia, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy sought details about the deal under the Freedom of Information Act. The watchdog group submitted […]

D.C. Public Schools partners with food-service agency that teaches ex-cons to cook

The District of Columbia is about to embark on what may be the nation's most unorthodox public-school food program: meals made from scratch, using locally grown ingredients, by a charitable social-services agency whose primary mission is feeding the homeless and teaching ex-offenders how to cook.

USDA wants us to 'know your farmer,' FDA wants us to stay home

A new federal law went into effect last month, supposedly designed to reduce the risk of Salmonella enteritidis contamination, which requires farms with more than 3,000 hens to abide by strict sanitation practices, including keeping customers out of the chicken houses. Is there something they don't want us to see?

The U.S. power sector: where the power plants are, when they were built, what they pollute

A broad look at the power industry -- where the power plants are, what they burn, and which ones pollute.