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Lawmakers call for end to animal-deafening, oil-finding offshore surveys
Not that this means the surveys will actually stop.
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Keystone XL decision unlikely before June — and that’s good news
The economics of tar sands got tougher in both the U.S. and Europe today.
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Chevron reports record profits — and will spend some of them undermining California pollution standards
It's a lovely system we've got going here.
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Sometimes a driverless car is not just a driverless car: Thoughts on widgets and systems
Driverless cars are coming soon, offering an opportunity to think about the difference between swapping out technological widgets and changing whole systems.
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Toppled U.K. wind turbines likely an act of sabotage
Our story from yesterday gets a little more complex and interesting.
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Burger King maybe served customers burgers with horse meat in them
When testers started looking for telltale horse DNA, they found it.
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CO2 emissions from energy production drop to 1994 levels in the U.S.
That gets us halfway to Obama's goal of cutting emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels over the next decade.
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California levies record $1 million fine against Chevron for refinery fire
Chevron flouted workplace-safety law in the lead-up to an explosion at its refinery in Richmond, Calif., last year, according to Cal/OSHA.
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British man’s dog sniffs out smelly whale secretion worth thousands
A man's dog finds him a big lump of ambergris worth thousands. Moral of the story: get a dog.
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Water use for electricity production set to double globally by 2035
Blame biofuels -- and, of course, coal.
