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More on ramping down baseload power and ramping up storage
Baseload is going the way of VHS. We must shed our aversion to innovation so we can start actually planning for the energy system we want.
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Black people get asthma so everybody else can get cheap power
African Americans are more likely than whites to live near coal-fired power plants -- and, not coincidentally, they have a 35 percent higher rate of asthma.
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Mark Ruffalo on Colbert Report
[vodpod id=Video.16293525&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse] Mark Ruffalo went on The Colbert Report to talk about fracking, and Stephen yelled at him — even though he acknowledged later that it’s probably a bad idea to yell at the Hulk.
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Tim DeChristopher put in ‘isolated confinement’
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher, still serving his sentence for disrupting a government auction of oil leases, has been transferred to isolated confinement. He’s been there since March 9.
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Meet Mr. Coal Guy: He’ll say anything to make you think coal is safe
The Sierra Club launches a new campaign using classic shows like Bob Ross' The Joy of Painting to parody the desperation of Big Coal advertising.
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Wind-powered opera slightly less extravagant than regular opera
For many people, the opera is just a chance to nap in a $300 chair under a $1,500 chandelier while wearing $2,000 worth of clothes. But one opera festival in the U.K. is making sure that its extravagance is at least powered by clean energy.
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For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals
A new law forbids the state's doctors from sharing information with patients exposed to toxic fracking solutions.
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Why Germany is phasing out nuclear power
Critics are after Germany for shutting down its nuclear plants, but they are missing the point: Germans think so-called "baseload power" is incompatible with a fully renewable power system. Eliminating baseload is a feature, not a bug.
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Ire drill: Obama lauds Keystone’s southern leg
In perhaps his worst speech yet, Obama boasted, "We've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some."
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Texas landowner calls out Obama on Keystone XL fast-tracking
President Obama called for an expedited approval of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. Meet a property owner whose land would be split in half.
