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California’s nutty farmland values are spiking
An overseas appetite for California almonds and pistachios has sent farm values soaring.
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More Hill staff go on to lobby for the oil industry, because this is how politics works
Relationships are the name of the game. And Big Oil knows how to play the game.
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U.S. renewable investment drops in 2012 — but still hits second-highest level ever
The story was the same internationally.
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BP kinda hoping the government can ignore a few hundred million barrels of spilled Gulf oil
After all, paying for what they did is already pretty expensive.
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Shell’s Arctic drilling flunks even the lax air pollution standards it weakened
The hits keep on coming.
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Beijing air pollution goes off the charts as electricity use climbs
The thick yellow air over China's capital city bodes poorly for life in its still-hot economy.
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Fixing a broken gas tax could fix broken roads
Gas tax income is falling as cars get more efficient. Can drivers stand to be taxed per mile driven instead?
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Shell gets massive, involuntary aid package from Alaska, U.S. Coast Guard, and you
Here's how many resources the state and Coast Guard used to help rescue the Kulluk -- and how they'll try to get repaid.
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Stephen Hawking will now be studying apocalyptic robots
Stephen Hawking has joined the Cambridge Project for Existential Risk, a group that tries to outsmart our eventual destruction at the hands of forces we are not imaginative enough to even anticipate.
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Chevron is pleased with how much money it made last year, which is nice
Glad to see someone's happy.