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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.
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Mickey Mouse pushes fossil fuels in this 1985 comic book
Matt Novak of Paleofuture has been posting photos of a 1985 Disney comic touting the benefits of oil pipelines and coal. What’s really striking is how much it genuinely sounds like Republican talking points. I guess Goofy is the American public, Mickey is the GOP, and whoever does Mickey’s voice is the Koch brothers.
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No place is safe from fracking, not even graveyards
No place blessed with an abundance of natural gas is safe from the possibility of fracking — not even cemeteries. In Texas, the president of the cemetery association has already been selling the gas underneath his graveyard, the Centre Daily Times reports: [John] Stephenson leased mineral rights under two of his cemeteries within the past […]
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Tar-sands oil spills should scare the crap out of you
InsideClimate News has published an in-depth series on a million-gallon-plus spill of oil-sands crude near Kalamazoo, Mich. Here are the good bits.
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Spray-on solar windows use teeny tiny solar cells to capture energy
If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that everything is better when it is smaller. Kittens are better than cats. Cake pops are better than cakes. LEGO models of anything are pretty great, even if the full-sized version is pretty iffy (say, a meth lab). Thus: Solar panels? Good. Teeny tiny solar cells? […]
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New York says eff you to coal plants
It will soon be nearly impossible to build a coal-fired power plant in New York, thanks to state regulators.
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Power your laptop with your butt
Swedish designer Eddi Tornberg has turned the plight of modern workers — sitting like lazy larvae in front of computer screens all day — into a form of renewable energy. He uses the heat of our rear ends to create electricity. You’ll still die from sitting, but at least your energy bills will be lower!
