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Mayor Bloomberg uses a full-sized room A/C unit to cool his SUV
It really would be interesting to find out what moral calculus goes into Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s environmental decisions. It must go something like “I’m a big city mayor, working hard to draw down emissions on a municipal scale. Therefore, it is 100 percent justifiable that in my personal life, I fly regularly to the Bahamas […]
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Why Congress must investigate the wasteful Solyndra investigation
If we're investigating every non-fruitful use of taxpayer money, then we must at once investigate the Solyndra investigation! To the Investigateocycle!
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Hope you enjoyed those two years without drilling on Alaska’s North Slope
Interior Secretary Salazar announced plans to allow exploration in one of America's most remote areas. If you can't see spills, do they happen?
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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.
