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Like a bad gambler, TransCanada promises it will have Nebraska’s money next time
Pipeline operator TransCanada paid 60 percent less in taxes to Nebraska than it promised. But the company says it'll pay more next year!
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Oil industry dumping crap in North Dakota. Um, literally.
The oil industry is diversifying the ways in which it pollutes. Hold your nose.
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Talking the talk on the environment doesn’t equal walking the walk
People who advocate green behavior are not more likely to engage in it, according to new research in Hungary. How you think America is doing is a glass-half-full sort of question.
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This drought ain’t the Dust Bowl, but it ain’t good
The current drought is devastating agriculture, but it's not as bad as the Dust Bowl. Not that "this isn't the worst thing ever" is cause for optimism.
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The U.S. is the most environmentally sustainable country in the world, except all the others
The annual Greendex places the U.S. in dead-last in sustainability and near dead-last in giving a shit about it.
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Today, Congress will hear about how chickens are impairing the oil industry
An endangered chicken in Oklahoma may slightly slow down the oil industry's ability to pull in scads of money. This will not stand.
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Easiest trivia question ever: What country buys the most soda?
The answer will not surprise you. But the amount of energy contained in our soda purchases might.
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Despite basic economics, your power bill is going up
What, you thought you could beat the power companies? Foolish human.
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Of the world’s 12 largest economies, the U.S. is the ninth-most energy efficient
On the plus side, we're more energy efficient than Canada.