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European leaders let cap-and-trade flounder
The European Union's carbon-trading system is no longer working effectively, and the E.U. parliament on Tuesday voted against fixing it.
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What’s bugging your meat? Shit and antibiotics, probably
Take a deep breath, carnivores: 87 percent of supermarket meat tests positive for normal and antibiotic-resistant forms of Enterococcus bacteria.
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Activists to Interior: Stop letting coal companies pillage our land, atmosphere, and treasury
Green groups are calling on the Obama administration to stop selling off publicly owned coal at bargain-basement prices to rapacious energy companies.
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Chevron ignored a decade of warnings before Richmond refinery explosion
The company knew about a corroding pipe at its refinery in the San Francisco Bay area, but didn't fix it -- and that's why the refinery exploded last August.
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Help fund these tiny reef-repairing robots, and get your name printed on a coral reef
Coralbots are tiny robots that work in autonomous underwater swarms to repair coral. And if you donate to their Kickstarter, you can put your name on a bot or on part of a reef.
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Wind produces almost twice as much power as nuclear in California
During a windy hour this month, wind provided 17.5 percent of California's electricity supply. That followed a surge in wind power installations last year.
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The brutal logic of climate change, international shipping edition
There's a titanic gulf between what we say ought to be done about climate change and what we are doing. For a great example, look at the shipping industry.
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Fracking for uranium, first accidentally, and now on purpose
Fracking can release uranium from shale. Pennsylvania is poised to study the issue, and the uranium industry is poised to exploit it.
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Koch brother gives $100 million to Hurricane Sandy-stressed hospital
David Koch's donation is the largest in NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's history.
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Solar grows up — now what?
Solar has grown up and earned a seat at the big kids table. But that means the fights are going to get nastier.