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1,000-pound butter sculpture will power farm for three days
Like deep-fried cake on a stick (or regional variants), butter sculpture is a staple of state fair tradition that will never go away even if it’s unnecessary and kinda gross. But at least the Pennsylvania state fair is using its behemoth butter statuary as a source of alternative energy.
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U.S. government downgrades projections for coal. Again.
Coal generation keeps falling faster than government predictions, which don't even account for other factors affecting its decline. Could the reign of coal finally be over?
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Clean energy is a wedge issue that favors Democrats
Overwhelming majorities of Americans support clean energy. The issue is an electoral winner for Democrats if they quit playing defense and go on the attack.
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Study: News coverage of Keystone XL slanted toward pipeline proponents
During the debate so far over Keystone XL, the media have favored pipeline proponents, according to a new study from Media Matters. Broadcast, cable, and print news stories all featured more people who supported the pipeline than who opposed it. Of guests on broadcast outlets, 79 percent supported Keystone XL; only 7 percent opposed it.
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How enhanced geothermal power works, courtesy Taiwanese animators
Taiwanese animation studio NMA News explains, visually, how one key to our energy future works.
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Ex-employee says BP fired him for trying to clean up oil
In November 2011, BP fired an employee named August Walter, who had been working on clean-up of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Now, Wilson says the company fired him because he wouldn’t help gloss over its clean-up shortcuts. He’s suing BP in federal court. BP and the Coast Guard are working on the clean-up […]
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What did Obama say about energy last night?
We at Grist List know more or less how your State of the Union experience went last night: You intended to watch it, but oooooh, you forgot there was a new Downton Abbey episode you hadn’t watched yet. You started watching the speech, but booooooring! You changed the channel/zoned out/got distracted by YouTube. Or you […]
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Party fouls: Blowing the whistle on Congress oil corruption [SLIDESHOW]
On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters led by Bill McKibben donned referee uniforms to call foul on Congress and demand that they quit trying to win the game for Big Oil in overtime.
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In SOTU, Obama trying yet again to blunt polluter attacks with policy concessions
In his State of the Union address tonight, Obama will try to convince the right that he loooves fossil fuels, despite his Keystone XL decision. As if going on the defensive has worked before.
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Natural gas: A bridge to nowhere
Natural gas might have been a "bridge fuel" to a low-carbon future 30 years ago, but today it does little to solve the climate problem, especially without a price on carbon.
