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At a big coal summit being held near U.N. climate negotiations, the industry argues that its fancy-pants new plants are clean. Scientists call bullshit.
The old liberal refrain of "I'm moving to Canada!" makes less sense now that our neighbor to the north is just as bad as the U.S. on climate and energy issues.
When Midwestern states and their industrial friends sued over a new EPA rule, they got just what they wanted: to keep polluting, and poisoning, as long as possible.
A spill of fracked oil from a pipeline was discovered two weeks ago, but we're only just learning about it.
The killers: Cheaper alternatives, dropping demand, and rising costs of generating electricity with dirty coal.
The EPA has lowered the amount of biofuels required to be blended into gasoline. That's a good thing, even though it makes oil companies happy.
Now energetic kids in rural Ghana can charge up LED lanterns by playing, so they can study at night.
Here's a bullet-point summation of what Nathanael Johnson learned about GMOs in 2013.
Green may actually be the result of the recessive gene.
