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Dear U.N.: Coal plants don’t count as climate-friendly projects
Japan spent $1 billion building coal plants in Indonesia and claimed it was "climate financing." Green groups are calling bullsh*t and demanding reform.
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NASA is headed for Mars. What, is there something wrong with Earth?
One could say, if one were particularly forward-thinking in the most pessimistic way, that we might be in the market for another planet.
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Fracking boom could go bust faster than Obama thinks
The government's rosy predictions about natural gas are wrong, suggests a new analysis.
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Nike, Starbucks, and other big businesses step up to support Obama’s climate rules
The EPA's proposed power plant regulations will help the American economy, not cripple it, say companies like Ikea, Kellogg’s, and Nestle.
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Turn your city into a swarm of robot farms
A California company is fixing to fill up urban nooks and crannies with plugin farming systems.
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Could this lawsuit force Obama to fix his ridiculous coal-leasing program?
The feds are still letting coal companies mine on public land at far below market rates, contrary to the goals of the president's own climate plan.
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A plan to get solar headed in the right direction — literally
It’s OK to discriminate on orientation when it comes to solar panels. West is best.
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Cheap gasoline summons the dread SUV from its jumbo grave
SUVs never had much on their cheaper, more efficient, safer compact-car competitors. But every time the price of fuel drops, the zombies return.
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Whatever, Tesla, this guy just invented a real flying car
The Terrafugia Transition will go down in history as the first ever commercially available flying car AND the worst name ever given to a product of any sort.
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Why aren’t we all driving hydrogen fuel cell cars?
A reader wonders when hydrogen-powered vehicles will rule the road. Umbra takes a look under the hood.
