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Stunning photos drive home the destructiveness of tar sands
We all know, in the abstract, that tar-sands oil is something we should oppose. But seeing the destruction that tar-sands mining wreaks on the landscape really brings it home. Business Insider took some spectacular photos at the Alberta tar sands, and they make the impact viscerally clear.
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Risky business: A look inside the black heart of a Goliath oil company
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll tells us why ExxonMobil pulled its funding from climate denial campaigns -- and why we may never be able to hold the company accountable for the damage it did.
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Against the grain: Fracking companies mine rural Wisconsin for sand
Fracking companies are storming rural Wisconsin, bringing money and misery with them. But they're not after natural gas: They're mining sand crucial to drilling operations everywhere. Inside the environmental nightmare you know nothing about.
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Let’s end polluter welfare
We can't afford to give away more than $110 billion to the oil, gas, and coal industries over the next decade. That's why I've introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act.
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Wisconsin hospital is powered by beer and cheese
Gundersen Lutheran Hospital, in La Crosse, Wis., aims to be energy independent by 2014. Hospitals use a ton of energy, so that’s a tough goal to meet. But Gundersen is getting there by piggybacking on Wisconsin’s best-known industries: beer and cheese. Beer and cheese, while delicious, both slough off a lot of gas while they’re […]
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Peabody Coal buys coal from U.S. taxpayers for cheap, sells it abroad for huge profit
The feds just sold 400 million tons of mineable coal at bargain-basement prices to a company that's now going to strip-mine public land and screw the climate.
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Department of Commerce slaps large tariffs on Chinese solar panels
The U.S. Commerce Department plans to impose tariffs of up to 250 percent on Chinese-made solar panels imported into the U.S.
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A national clean energy standard is good policy — and good politics
Americans support a clean energy target for this country. So why is the Senate dragging its heels on the Clean Energy Standard Act?
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The answer to our fuel woes might be monster sweet potatoes
Corn ethanol is a good idea in theory — what’s more renewable than a fuel source you plant and harvest every year? But corn is such an inefficient energy source that if we wanted to meet our biofuel goals with corn ethanol alone, they’d have to shoulder out every other crop. You know what yields […]
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Brooklynites: Don’t frack our beer! [VIDEO]
Environmentalists warn New York beer might become a cocktail of toxic chemicals.
