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Mitt Romney may have a few million reasons to oppose wind power
Romney's long-standing relationship with Charles Koch has likely influenced his opinions on wind power for a long time. His recent opposition is not a big surprise.
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16-year-old scientist could turn Egypt’s plastic problem into a biofuel boom
What have you done for your country lately? Sixteen-year-old Azza Abdel Hamid Falad has figured out a way to make Egypt $78 million worth of biofuel each year. The key: an inexpensive catalyst that will turn plastic into fuel.
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Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Jimmy Fallon perform ‘Don’t Frack My Mother’
Here’s Sean Lennon, deliberately looking just like his father and singing just like Bob Dylan for some reason, performing a slightly naughty anti-fracking song with his mom on Jimmy Fallon’s show.
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Like a bad gambler, TransCanada promises it will have Nebraska’s money next time
Pipeline operator TransCanada paid 60 percent less in taxes to Nebraska than it promised. But the company says it'll pay more next year!
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Oil industry dumping crap in North Dakota. Um, literally.
The oil industry is diversifying the ways in which it pollutes. Hold your nose.
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Drug traffickers take advantage of energy-company roads in Texas
We're not saying that the DEA should crack down on ConocoPhillips, but, yeah, the DEA should crack down on ConocoPhillips.
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Why we pay double for solar in America (but won’t forever)
The barriers to cheap solar in the U.S. can be solved by policy, not technological, innovation. It's not too ambitious to assume the price of solar will keep falling.
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Shell celebrates new Alaska drilling by apparently losing control of a ship [updated]
The aptly-named Noble Discoverer appears to have run aground in remote Alaska, just to demonstrate Shell's sheer competence.
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Today, Congress will hear about how chickens are impairing the oil industry
An endangered chicken in Oklahoma may slightly slow down the oil industry's ability to pull in scads of money. This will not stand.
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Best example of bad government investment? Land use.
On the plus side, this is a problem that has only existed for 128 years.
