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Natural-gas liquid is gushing near a Colorado creek, and nobody can figure out how to stop it
More than 60,000 gallons of unidentified hydrocarbon gunk have leaked into the ground near a gas processing plant, and more just keeps on leaking.
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Researchers find that ‘wind turbine syndrome’ is bogus
Complaints about turbine-caused illness tend to surface after wind-energy opponents have made a stink and caused people to worry.
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America’s infrastructure grade improves to a still very sad D+
For the first time in 15 years, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a better grade than last time.
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Google Maps can now make you a virtual mountain climber
Google Maps gets you from your house to Petco. And now it gets you to the world's highest peaks.
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Best Kickstarter ever: This fourth-grade class is building its very own solar array, and you can help
Aaron's Class started their Kickstarter with the goal of raising $800. So far, they've raised $3,500.
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Green tech incubator Greenstart ups its game
The company has traded in its accelerator program for a beefier venture capital strategy dedicated to well-designed cleantech.
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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.