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Cap-and-trade puttering along quite nicely in the Northeast U.S.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative produced $1.6 billion in economic value for participating states, a new study finds. Yes, carbon trading can be good for the economy.
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Think methane hydrates are the next big thing? Think again.
Renewables are on a much more solid path to affordability than methane hydrates.
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Court says N.Y. town can outlaw fracking
Dryden and more than 50 other municipalities want to ban fracking in case New York's state moratorium is lifted. An appeals court said that's just fine.
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This nuclear plant tried to fix a leak with plastic, tape, and broomsticks
That's fine if you're a college kid with a leaky pipe in a house that you pay $200 a month for to a landlord who lives in the Bahamas. But this is a nuclear power plant!
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Watch a solar plane fly across America
The current leg of its trip will take the plane from California to Phoenix, but Solar Impulse is in it for the long haul, crossing the entire country in the next few weeks.
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What if we never run out of oil?
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle -- and a nightmare.
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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.
