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A bit of good green energy news for your holidays, courtesy of New England
In Northeastern power markets, renewable energy is increasingly cheaper than fossil fuel energy.
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Have people of color been locked out of the green economy?
Black entrepreneurs want to see themselves reflected in the green economy before they join the army to defend it.
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Life in the bike lane was pretty good in 2014
We spent some time this week pedaling through our bike coverage from 2014, and here are our favorite stories of the year.
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2014 was stuffed with good food news that you never heard about
While high-profile issues aroused inflexible rhetoric, the food movement made real progress this year in a handful of important but less prominent areas.
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Obama blows a chance to crack down on coal
With weak rules for coal ash, Obama has rewarded his enemies, screwed over his friends, and squandered an opportunity to move toward clean energy.
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This is the kind of climate bill Congress should pass (but won’t)
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Brian Schatz are pushing legislation to charge polluters for CO2 emissions and redistribute the revenue to the public.
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Eat less. Get healthy. Feed the world.
Whether you end up changing the world or just your own health, eating less is a great idea.
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Villains who poisoned W. Va. drinking water could end up behind bars
Indictments have come down for execs at the coal-"cleaning" company that contaminated the drinking water of 300,000 people.
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Obama sounds like he’s about to reject the Keystone pipeline
The president said surprisingly smart -- and skeptical -- things about the proposed pipeline at a news conference on Friday.
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Is China’s demand for coal going to keep rising? Don’t bet on it
A report from the International Energy Agency suggests that demand will grow steadily for years. There are lots of good reasons to believe that's wrong.