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Steel, aluminum, titanium, or carbon fiber -- that is the question. Umbra tests the metals.
More and more utilities are competing for solar power dollars -- but what will that mean for smaller companies and consumers?
The oil industry and its political lackeys are cooking up a new scheme to get Alberta's oil to coastal ports.
Less rain means fewer clouds, fewer clouds means more sun, more sun means more solar power.
Weather is not climate.
Thanks to a disclosure law in California, we now know that frackers are polluting water with petroleum chemicals, heavy metals, radioactive elements, and carcinogens.
The West might be drier than a popcorn's fart, but archaic water rules force farmers to irrigate.
The Japan Meteorological Agency released data confirming that 2014 was the hottest year globally since record-keeping began.
The Steelworkers union is worried about emissions, leaks, fires, and explosions at oil refineries, and is demanding safer working conditions.
