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Indiana lawmakers, who are also coal company execs, help coal industry
A plan to build a pricey coal-gasification plant is getting help from not-so-impartial legislators. Hoosiers could get hosed as a result.
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How science can predict where you stand on Keystone XL
Want to make sense of the feud between pipeline activists and "hippie-punching" moderates? Talk to the researchers.
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None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit.
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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.
