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Louisiana pipeline fire, now extinguished, sickened residents
One out of every 10 residents of a nearby town say pollution from the pipeline accident and the resulting days-long fire made them sick.
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BP can bid on new Gulf drilling leases, but will it be allowed to drill?
After being barred from bidding on Gulf of Mexico drilling leases as punishment for the Deepwater Horizon spill, BP is now back in action -- kind of.
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Obama: Let’s fund clean car technology with oil and gas royalties
The president wants to spend $2 billion over the next decade to research ways to power cars without oil, funded by offshore drilling royalties.
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Awesome 17-year-old geek wins $100,000 for her bedroom biofuel lab
Sara Volz's experiments with algae could create cheaper, more efficient biofuel.
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10 reasons why fracking for dirty oil in California is a stupid idea
The oil industry is eyeing California’s tight oil reserves, and even Gov. Jerry Brown thinks it might make sense to frack them. Here are 10 reasons not to.
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Another climate delay from the Obama admin?
The EPA may postpone release of its landmark greenhouse gas regulations for new power plants. Environmentalists are not pleased.
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Oil industry ad campaign: ‘Give us tax breaks or everybody gets hurt’
New ads from the American Petroleum Institute claim that a tax on the energy industry is really "a tax on families."
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Obama admin wants hundreds of tiny nuclear reactors built in U.S.
If the Department of Energy has its way, as many as 50 small modular reactors could be built and deployed every year by 2040.
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Adorable students create air freshener out of cow dung
If these girls make air freshener out of cow dung, well, you can probably at least get a job.
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The government is engineering cyborg spy animals (really)
Science writer Emily Anthes has a new book out that covers all the ways we're tinkering with animals and turning them into cyborgs, ready to obey our every whim.