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But there is good news: Delaware's junior senator wants to include discussion of an intricate system for indirectly funding renewables!
The U.S. electric grid is fragile, inadequate, and inefficient. Investing in grid modernization would clearly save American consumers tremendous amounts of energy and money. So why aren't we doing more of it?
Phil Jones became a public figure when his emails on climate science were stolen and released. As a result, he received a number of threats on his life.
Today in the U.S., we have a “sprint culture” -- an addiction to speed and quick rewards. We need to slow down and begin to find a rhythm for a long-distance run.
An assessment of the top 100 metropolitan areas in the country finds that most jobs are accessible by transit – but the workers might not be.
Filmmakers Hugo de Kok and Kay van Vree say they “where curious about de forms and shapes food makes when you...
"State shift" doesn't mean moving to Arkansas. It's the alarming phrase a new study uses to describe what goes down when we push the planet past its limits. And it's just around the corner.
How do we reduce our exposure to mercury? The answer requires both difficult changes to the world’s energy supply and simpler consumer choices.
A case study in how change is made in Washington: slowly, with much debate, and with tangential regard for the science.