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Watch live as a guy freefalls from space
Felix Baumgartner is jumping out of a balloon in the stratosphere, and skydiving all the way to Earth.
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Youngstown, Ohio, could turn to fracking to clean up mess left by steel industry
The city's effort to remove abandoned properties has run out of money. So to raise cash, it's considering a return to dirty industry.
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Comically evil coal honcho could face investigations into fundraising trickery
Robert Murray, who has coerced employees into being in a Romney ad and donating to Republicans, could be investigated for potential lawbreaking.
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Yes, coal is dying, but no, EPA is not the main culprit
A Christian Science Monitor headline claims that EPA regulations are squelching coal companies. Not so: David Roberts explains what's really snuffing out the industry.
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BP sells disaster site to pay bills from another disaster
BP is selling its refinery in Texas where an explosion killed 15 people in 2005. The money will go to clean up the Deepwater Horizon mess. The big wheel of life keeps turning.
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A new ‘golden age of oil’ in the U.S.? Don’t believe it
Those like Mitt Romney who claim that the U.S. can achieve energy “independence” by 2020 are delusional. "Extreme energy" is an extreme dead end.
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Finally! Chipotle signs deal to pay tomato pickers more
The agreement brings an end to a long fight between the restaurant chain and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
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How to make energy journalism better
Media critic Jay Rosen asked David Roberts what kind of energy journalism the world needs. Here's the answer.
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Green group buys up Wyoming oil leases to stop drilling
The Trust for Public Land has struck a deal to buy $8.75 million worth of oil and gas leases, to make sure the oil and gas don't get drilled.
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More jobs lost as wind tax credit nears expiration. Congress, you listening?
A ball-bearing manufacturer in South Carolina announces plans to close a plant, thanks to GOP unwillingness to extend a key wind tax credit.
