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Adorable video will make you feel bad for power plants
This video of collapsing power plant cooling towers is supposed to make you want to celebrate the victory of renewable energy over large power companies that run on fossil fuels. And it does! Sort of. But the cooling towers are so adorable that you feel kind of bad for rooting against them. Couldn’t they have […]
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Time for an oil change: Americans strongly oppose fossil fuel subsidies
A Yale poll found that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to oil, coal, and gas subsidies.
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11 important clean energy provisions in Obama’s budget proposal
By including investments in clean energy and efficiency that will create jobs and save taxpayers money, the president has proposed a budget for the 99%.
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Overinvesting in energy efficiency, on purpose
How can we get more energy efficiency without additional growth -- that is, avoid the rebound effect? David Roberts thinks overinvesting in efficiency could open up intriguing possibilities.
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Bill McKibben discusses his 700,000 anti-Keystone emails on Colbert
The 350.org founder appeared on the Colbert Report to discuss the anti-Keystone campaign.
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How distributed solar can reduce electricity prices
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. What if installing more solar could reduce electricity prices? It’s already happening in Germany, world leader in solar power, and it’s likely to happen in the U.S., too. Right now the idea of solar reducing electricity […]
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Japan’s emissions shot up after Fukushima — but it could have been worse
After the Fukushima disaster, Japan launched a campaign to cut energy use. Businessmen wore relatively skimpy outfits to the office, turned off lights, abstained from air conditioning. But despite those energy efficiency efforts, carbon emissions still went up after the nuclear plant shut down. Aw hell — hot dark rooms full of scantily clad people […]
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Why is the White House sitting on efficiency standards?
New efficiency standards for buildings and appliances have inexplicably been awaiting approval by the Office of Management and Budget for months now.
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Oil shale drilling another terrible aspect of GOP transportation bill
Yet another reason why the Republican transportation bill sucks: It would open up more land to oil shale mining -- a destructive and not-commercially feasible technology.
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DOE Loan Guarantee Program will cost $2 billion less than expected
Shocker: An independent analysis of the DOE Loan Guarantee Program found that loan guarantees for energy have been successful, cost-effective investments.
