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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.
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Will the Senate make you inhale mercury? We find out today
The Senate is set to vote on a new regulation from the EPA. What does it all mean? We answer your questions.