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More than 100,000 electric vehicles now on the roads in U.S.
Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S helped the industry reach this milestone. Meanwhile, Tesla plans to repay a government loan nine years early.
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Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to change
Utilities are boring and opaque, but central to any clean-energy future. So it's time to demystify them. Here's a plainspoken intro to how they work, and why.
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Could the Monsanto Protection Act get repealed?
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is trying to roll back a provision that allows GMO crops to be planted even before they've been OK'd by the USDA.
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Nation’s biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico
Companies from Japan and Canada want to build the mine on land held sacred by Native Americans, and the U.S. Forest Service may just say OK.
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Best switcheroo ever: Scientists could extract gold with cornstarch instead of cyanide
Any time you can switch out cornstarch for cyanide in an industrial process, you're doing well.
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BP, Shell, Statoil accused of fixing oil prices
European officials have raided the oil companies' offices, and now a U.S. senator wants an investigation launched on this side of the pond.
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BP wants U.S. government to reduce court-ordered oil-spill payouts
BP says it shouldn't have to pay so much to help companies hurt by the Deepwater Horizon spill. It wants the U.K. government to ask the U.S. government for help.
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Huge tar-sands waste pile grows alongside Detroit River
Refining Canadian tar-sands oil creates mountains of filthy black waste, as the residents of Detroit are discovering. Other American communities can look forward to the same.
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Harvard researchers, on road to useful discoveries, instead make tiny chemical flowers
Scientists at Harvard can make teeny tiny flowers out of chemicals. No, they can't do the flowers for your wedding. Unless everyone you know is invisible to the naked eye, too.
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Green roofs don’t work unless you plant them with diverse, local plants
Planting your green roof with sedum is like hiring employees based on how long they can physically sit in an office chair instead of how good they are at doing the work.
