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Germany’s key to clean energy is … this coal mine?
A German engineer wants to turn an old mine, half a mile underground, into a giant battery.
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Cowboys and Indians stage a feisty Keystone XL protest
An alliance of Native Americans, ranchers, and farmers stormed the National Mall -- not your usual anti-pipeline rally.
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How a cop’s blows turned Richmond’s Andres Soto into a climate activist
In Richmond, Calif., Chevron always pulled the strings -- till a group of progressives started fighting back. Here's how all that started.
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Oregon tells rail companies to keep oil deliveries secret
A newspaper won the right to see reports about trains carrying crude. So state officials told rail companies to stop sending in the reports.
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It’s virtually certain that the IPCC needs to dump its “very likely” crap
Researchers have discovered, yet again, that few people understand what the heck the world's preeminent authority on climate change is trying to say.
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Corn waste-based ethanol could be worse for the climate than gasoline
Cellulosic ethanol was supposed to be a climate savior, but a new study casts doubt on that assumption.
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Numbers on the board: The Gulf Coast, four years after the BP disaster
BP says the coast is clear. Here are the numbers. You be the judge.
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“Climate change war” is not a metaphor
The U.S. military is preparing for conflict, retired Navy Rear Adm. David Titley says in an interview.
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Minnesota can’t say no to coal power, judge rules
A Minnesota law aims to reduce fossil fuel use. Coal plants in North Dakota said no fair, and a federal court agreed, striking down part of the law.
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Climate change got you down this Earth Day? Time for a badger mask
Hopelessness peddler Paul Kingsnorth keeps winning attention for his Dark Mountain project, but his climate fatalism looks more like midlife-crisis posturing than insight.