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Fracking threatens to escalate the West’s water wars
Nearly half of the country's fracking wells are located in water-stressed regions, so we might be seeing some ugly fights over water in the West.
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ExxonMobil’s tar-sands pipeline leaks again
The same ExxonMobil pipeline that made a big mess a month ago in Mayflower, Ark., has now spilled into a yard in Missouri.
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Local food — put a sticker on it!
As the public’s appetite grows for locally grown eats, so do the smart marketing campaigns designed to help local farmers, and foster more of them.
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Uranium mining is coming soon to the Grand Canyon area
Last year, Obama banned mines near the Grand Canyon, but one Canadian company has successfully argued that it should be allowed to mine anyway.
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Fracking boom in North Dakota is here to stay
A new federal study doubles previous estimates of the Bakken Shale’s oil reserves.
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You are a chemical guinea pig for Big Business — whether you like it or not
Today, we are all unwitting subjects in the largest set of drug trials ever.
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Frackers leaking less methane than previously believed, EPA says
The EPA has lowered its estimate of how much methane escapes during production of natural gas, but some scientists are skeptical of the rosy new figures.
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Bills to ban fracking in California move forward
An Assembly committee gave a thumbs-up to three bills that would impose a moratorium on fracking until the state studies the environmental and health impacts.
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Electric vehicles could stabilize grid, make money as batteries
EVs are now starting to store electricity and then sell it onto the power grid when energy prices are highest.
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Save water, energy, and money by wearing this shirt you only wash three times a year
The founder of Wool&Prince wore the prototype of the company's button-down shirt for 100 straight days.
