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Of the world’s 12 largest economies, the U.S. is the ninth-most energy efficient
On the plus side, we're more energy efficient than Canada.
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Fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria kills more than 90
This tragedy is only the latest in a string of fuel transport-related disasters.
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U.S. Navy on its green initiatives: Damn the torpedoes!
Despite enormous pushback from Capitol Hill, the Navy is moving forward with major efforts to reduce energy consumption.
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How the oil boom in Montana has turned railroads into a pipeline
Yesterday, we worried about pipelines. Today: trains.
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Baseball’s All-Star Game: So green, you’ll forget the game doesn’t matter
How green is the All-Star Game? So green, even the red carpet is green.
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The worst onshore oil spill in American history didn’t have to happen
The actions of the owner of a pipeline that dumped a million gallons of tar-sands oil into the Kalamazoo River made a bad situation worse.
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Is fracking polluting Pennsylvania groundwater or not?
It depends on how you want to frame it. But a new study provides no evidence that it does.
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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.
