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Cuba is finally embracing solar power
The country gets just 4 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, but seven new solar farms will change that.
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Your mouthwash might soon come in packaging made from potatoes
Tom's of Maine, which produces all-natural toothpaste and other personal hygiene items, will be making potato plastic packages a reality.
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TransCanada plans colossal trans-Canada oil pipeline
With Keystone XL in limbo, TransCanada announced Thursday that it wants to build an even bigger pipeline from Alberta to eastern Canada.
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Fast food and furious: Restaurant workers are fed up with minimum wage
Fast food workers are on the march nationwide. What, oh what, are the poor corporate fat cats to do?
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American firm debuts first airplane to run on natural gas
The plane can fly on both standard aviation fuel and compressed natural gas.
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Koch brothers hire lobbyists to fight carbon tax, save poor and old people
Carbon-tax proposals are going nowhere in Congress, but the Koch brothers aren't taking any chances. They're fighting the proposals -- on behalf of the low-income and the elderly, of course.
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Offshore auction signals start of wind bonanza
The feds auctioned off the right to build turbines in nearly 165,000 acres of New England waters -- the first of many offshore auctions planned.
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Bad news, coal industry: Proposed export terminal is in for a tough review
A planned coal export terminal in Washington state will have to undergo a rigorous study that will consider climate impacts and other potential environmental problems.
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You get my drift? Pesticides cause big problems when they go where they’re not wanted
Too many pesticide-spraying crop dusters are accidentally missing their targets, killing neighbors' crops and making people sick.
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$100 million worth of natural gas goes up in flames every month in North Dakota
Drillers in the state don't have an easy way to get their natural gas to market, so nearly a third of it is being flared off, i.e. totally wasted.
