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Yes, frackers can forcibly drill your land, even if you don’t want them to
Forced pooling allows drillers to tap gas beneath a reluctant landowner's property if enough of their neighbors sell their drilling rights.
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Will EPA’s power plant regulations be stopped in the courts?
Here are five legal weak points that opponents will attack with lawsuits.
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Here’s what happens when GMO antagonists get together for a friendly chat
With Monsanto and anti-GMO activists sharing a stage, you might expect fireworks, or illumination, or even both. Instead, this event was almost chummy.
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Big Food is already suing Vermont over its GMO labeling law
It only took 35 days. So now organic advocates and anti-GMO activists are raising money for a defense effort.
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Tesla abandons its patents, aims to spur electric-car revolution
The pioneering EV manufacturer is going open source, allowing competitors to use all of its patented technology.
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Your clothes dryer is a huge energy waster
Washing machines, dishwashers, and refrigerators are much more energy efficient now than they were 20 or 30 years ago, but clothes dryers still suck.
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Ford builds cars out of tomatoes while other companies play ketchup
The company is using the tagline, “You Say Tomato; We Say Tom-Auto.” Of course, puns like that are far below Grist's standards.
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Climate change has things on Earth looking rough? NASA’s got a fly getaway ship
The NASA scientist famous for saying that we can travel faster than light has cooked up an intersteller spaceship. And we want one.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants Tesla’s green jobs. What’s Texas willing to give?
Perry is salivating over a new $5 billion electric car battery factory, with 6,500 high-paying jobs. Perhaps it's time to play hardball.
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Stop lying! Enviros are fed up with false ads about Obama’s power plant rules
The National Mining Association is playing inaccurate radio ads, so a coalition of green group is asking the FCC to investigate.
