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Energy conservation gets gamified
Businesses are using gamification to goad us into buying more junk. But some people are trying to harness online games for good causes.
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Your 2012 climate change scorecard
In the battle between polluting and not polluting quite so much, how did the world fare in 2012?
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This device tells your phone how gross the air is to breathe
It tells your phone how crappy the air is. And then your phone tells you the bad news.
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The apocalypse is here: FDA clears way for fast-growing GM monster salmon
AquAdvantage salmon eat five times the food and grow twice as fast as normal salmon. And now, thanks to the FDA, they're headed for your plate.
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New EPA rules on industrial boiler pollution could prevent 8,100 premature deaths a year
Environmental and health advocates, however, argue that the new rules don't go far enough.
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72 percent of bids at California’s carbon auction came from one company’s mistake
Edison International wasted $16 million on pollution credits it didn't want.
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Appeals court rejects industry attempt to kill EPA regulation of greenhouse gases
This is a win for the EPA and climate action. But the fight's not over yet -- the case could get kicked up to the Supreme Court.
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House GOP wants to crack down on environmental regs because jobs
After all, the record boom in domestic oil and gas extraction is clearly not boomy enough.
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Huge power plant gives up on coal, the Times reports with a shrug
The closure of the Big Sandy coal plant in Kentucky is Big News -- but not, it seems, to The New York Times.
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America’s fastest-growing state: North Frackota
The lure of jobs overcomes the deterrent of boredom.