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This doohickey turns your normal bike into an electric bike
Plop the Rubbee on your back tire and get ready to blast off into the future (at a modest 15 mph).
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Why the Peak Oilers are still right
The oil and gas boom in the U.S. has some people arguing that we no longer need to worry about fossil-fuel supplies. Au contraire.
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Genetically engineered food: Allergic to regulations?
GM food is heavily tested for allergens, but we'd all be better served by a more codified and transparent process.
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Leak-prone oil tankers to remain on American train tracks for now
The Obama administration has announced another delay in better regulating the type of disaster-prone rail cars that exploded in Quebec earlier this month.
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In this time-lapse video, you can see Texas’ reservoirs disappearing
In 1965, the federal government dammed up a river to create Texas' Lake Meredith. Now it's almost gone.
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Leaked EPA document raises questions about fracking pollution
The EPA doesn't seem very interested in finding out whether fracking pollutes groundwater, according to a report in the L.A. Times.
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Orange you ready for a tall glass of GMOs?
An insect-spread disease is wiping out orange crops. Gene splicing might help in the short term, but it won't make Big Ag more sustainable or resilient.
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Herbicides linked to farmer depression
A study of more than 700 French farmers and farmworkers found that those who used herbicides were more than twice as likely to suffer from depression.
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Goldman Sachs says coal-export terminals are a bad investment
Goldman Sachs says the market for coal exports is slowing and related infrastructure projects, like those planned for the U.S. Northwest, "will struggle to earn a positive return."
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Feds want food importers to ramp up safety measures
The FDA says food purveyors should no longer be able to skirt U.S. food safety rules by producing their product abroad and then selling it to Americans.
