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The rest of the world is eyeing the cheap natural gas produced by fracking in the U.S. Obama will soon decide whether we should share.
If only a fraction of predicted global warming happens, the East Coast could be in for a rough century.
Thanks to climate change, millions of square miles of new trees and shrubs are turning the far north green, say researchers. And that's not good.
Author Peter Gleick found that nearly half of bottled water is just treated stuff from the tap.
Low-priced natural gas doomed the Wisconsin plant, while maintenance problems plague the San Onofre nuke facility along the Pacific coast.
One out of every 10 residents of a nearby town say pollution from the pipeline accident and the resulting days-long fire made them sick.
The government dispatched 3,000 of them over 16 days to keep them the hell away from endangered greater bilbies.
If you're as fascinated by utilities as we are, you'll want to follow these links to more reports and articles covering the spread of distributed energy and utilities' efforts to adapt.
Here's what the intersection of car-share programs and driverless cars could look like.
