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Detroit’s dirty petcoke piles disappear, but where did they go?
The Koch brothers have removed their disgusting piles of refinery waste from Detroit. Rumor has it that they're now in Ohio, but the Kochs aren't talking.
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Clean energy law reducing electricity costs in Ohio
Ohio's renewable energy mandate has been good for ratepayers, a new study finds. But that's isn't stopping one Republican from trying to roll it back.
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Oops: Illegal carcinogen found in nearly 100 shampoos
You’d think something you slather on your head wouldn’t include a suspected carcinogen. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
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Illinois concedes kids maybe shouldn’t be brainwashed by Big Coal
Pro-coal propaganda has been woven into curricula in Illinois schools, but now a state review is calling for changes to the program.
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Fracking wastewater disposal triggered more than 100 earthquakes in Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio, had never experienced a recorded earthquake. Then frackers started pumping wastewater into the ground at a single injection well, and things got crazy.
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Oil refiners don’t care about Keystone XL anymore
Canadian oil companies still desperately want the Keystone XL pipeline, but U.S. oil refiners don’t much care whether the damned thing ever gets built.
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Chile just got really good at creating drinking water from fog
"How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?" THIS is how, Sound of Music nuns!
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Fracking fights spread to Europe
European leaders want to use fracking to emulate America's oil and gas boom. European citizens are not so happy about that idea.
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People save more energy when they know they’re being watched
Utility customers who were told their electricity use was being tracked as part of an experiment reduced their consumption by 2.7 percent.
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Coal company accidentally turns a creek into concrete
Workers dumped tons of grout into a ridge to try to repair damage caused by mining, but the grout poured out the bottom and into a creek.