Climate Energy
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Ethanol: Beloved by farmers, detested by Big Oil, endlessly debated by Congress
A case study in how change is made in Washington: slowly, with much debate, and with tangential regard for the science.
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How nearly empty swaths of Montana guide policy on the Keystone pipeline
While Montana is home to only 0.3 percent of America's population, it controls 2 percent of the Senate. And that 2 percent supports Keystone.
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Patriot Coal files for bankruptcy
The company cites the coal industry's "major transformation" in a public statement.
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Black lung disease, once on the brink of extinction, is back. Thank the coal industry
A new report from NPR and the Center for Public Integrity finds that an affliction once nearly eradicated is back – and more dangerous than ever.
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Apple withdraws its products from national environmental standard
Apple's new MacBook laptops are hard to take apart, and thus hard to recycle, so they fail to meet one key green standard.
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Norway could halt all oil extraction tonight, probably only temporarily
Not that a fella can't dream.
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Duke Energy CEO Bill Johnson resigns after one day, gets $44 million in severance
For his eight-hour tenure as top dog at Duke, Bill Johnson made a cool $44.4 million.
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Complete jerks think fracking is more important than democracy
In North Carolina, of course.
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Japanese commission: Don’t blame Mother Nature for Fukushima
A lengthy report from a commission tasked with analyzing what went wrong at Fukushima issues its response: everything.
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The new fossil-fuel glut: Less glutty than you think
Michael Liebreich, head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, talks with David Roberts about whether this supposed "oil glut" deserves the hype.