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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.
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Stick it to ’em: Scientists call for labeling tar-sands oil
The E.U. is considering a system to label gasoline according to how much carbon it emits. Oil companies and Canada don't like the idea.
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Fracking company finds new way to screw over the environment
A subsidiary of fracking giant Chesapeake Energy is being fined $3.2 million for water pollution caused by sloppy construction practices.
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China doesn’t want our genetically modified corn
China has rejected a third of America's corn exports this year because they harbored GM varieties not approved for sale in the country.
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The Obama administration is undermining its own plans for carbon capture
New coal power plants will have to capture their CO2, but they'll be able to sell it to oil companies to be pumped down into old wells to increase oil production.
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Fracking opponents win big in Pennsylvania
The state Supreme Court struck down parts of an industry-friendly law and ruled that local governments can regulate the fracking industry.
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Sudsed: The FDA steps down a long road toward banning antibacterial hand soap
Will this happen? We won't know for three years. Would it be a good thing? Yes.
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Right-wingers and dirty energy corporations secretly spending mega-millions on climate denial
Looks like the Koch brothers, ExxonMobil, et al. are now funneling their climate-denier funding through innocuous-sounding foundations.
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California is giving Tesla another huge tax break. Good move
Luxury electric-car maker Tesla is getting a $34.7 billion tax break from California.
