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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.
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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.
