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Hope you enjoyed those two years without drilling on Alaska’s North Slope
Interior Secretary Salazar announced plans to allow exploration in one of America's most remote areas. If you can't see spills, do they happen?
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Good news about fossil fuels! Related: Bad news about fossil fuels!
You will basically be rewarded for not reading this post to the end.
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Coal plants are the VHS tapes of the energy production flea market
In the sense that no one wants them.
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Enough cheap coal: Using public lands for the public interest
Instead of auctioning federal land to coal companies, what if we used these taxpayer-owned spaces for something in the public interest -- like renewable power generation?
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Hope for the unemployed: Fukushima exec lands new gig
One, we might add, that may bode poorly for Japan's currently oil-free coastlines.
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Coal companies routinely win ‘competitive bids’ against no competition
These government-run auctions have cost taxpayers almost a billion dollars a year over the past three decades.
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How Peabody gets dirt-cheap land and the rest of us get a gigaton of carbon pollution
In the Bureau of Land Management's corrupt coal-leasing program, taxpayer-owned land is leased at "auctions" where companies like Peabody are often the only bidder.
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Your iPad is costing you (a tiny bit) more than you think
Research indicates that the cost of charging your iPad over the course of a year runs a whopping... $1.36.
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General public still unaware of what fracking is — much less its impacts
A survey from the University of Texas indicates that nearly two-thirds of Americans aren't familiar with fracking – even as anecdotes about negative effects pile up.
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The best pun about wind energy, you’re welcome
This made me laugh way, way harder than it should.
