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Thanks to Congress, 2014 will bring uncertainty for the wind industry
The wind PTC has allowed the industry to grow and reduce costs, but now it is expiring. There hasn't been a big fight to extend it into next year. Why?
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The top 13 green stories of 2013: The good, the bad, and the muddled
The environmental news this year was full of ups and downs, twists and turns, and deeply conflicted protagonists.
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The first high-res HD video of Earth from space is amazing and kind of unnerving
Skybox Imaging, which took the video, assures us all that the resolution isn't high enough for them to watch you get undressed.
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20 GMO questions: Animal, vegetable, controversy?
Here's a bullet-point summation of what Nathanael Johnson learned about GMOs in 2013.
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Meet the senator from ExxonMobil who’s taking over the Energy Committee
Mary Landrieu, Democrat from Louisiana, is poised to become chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where she'll push her pro-oil agenda.
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These motion-activated streetlights could cut L.A.’s energy use by 40 percent
For the past two years, neighborhoods in Ireland and Holland have been implementing the system, and now it could be coming to Los Angeles.
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Ask Umbra: What’s the best way to seal up a drafty house?
A reader wonders if there a way to keep the cold out this winter. Umbra is just getting warmed up.
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Your cable box is a vampire, but it’s about to get more efficient
The Department of Energy struck a deal with the pay-TV industry to make DVRs and other set-top boxes suck up less power.
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How to land a green job in 2014
Our prognosticator has traveled throughout the green employment community and returned with some predictions to get you going.
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First oil shale mine in U.S. is coming to Utah
As if we didn’t already have enough filthy, inefficient, unconventional oil-extraction techniques in use in North America, here’s one more.