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Obama administration finalizes 54.5 mpg standard for automobiles
With support from car manufacturers and unions, the new standard promises to save Americans $1.7 trillion at the gas pump.
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Romney includes one wind rep on his 50-person Colorado energy task force
It's almost like he doesn't want to hear what the wind industry has to say.
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Republican convention flooded with corporate money
A big storm has hit Tampa after all: Hurricane Benjamins.
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Contrarian conservationist: Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist riles old-school greens
Biologist Peter Kareiva says conservationists are too focused on restoring pristine nature. Instead, he says, they need to think about creating a future we can all live with.
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Shell still doesn’t have its sh*t together on Arctic drilling
Shell is asking the feds for a deadline extension on drilling off the coast of Alaska. Will the company ever actually get its act together? No one knows!
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Texans exercise their Second Amendment rights to ward off smart meters
Well, "Texan," singular. But the movement to combat the insidious, intrusive device is real.
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Snap-together house is easy to assemble, hard to pay for
The good news: Some Danish architects teamed up with some British digital fabrication people to create a 1,250-square-foot house produced in a rapid prototyping machine. (A rapid prototyping machine uses computer modeling to quickly produce scale models of physical parts.) The bad news is, for a house made of Tinkertoy, it cost a bundle to […]
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Looking for kids’ books? Avoid this Monsanto propaganda
A book with cute illustrations introduces kids to the "neat topic" of biotechnology, but fails to mention hazards associated with GMOs, like increased pesticide use and possible liver and kidney damage.
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Court: TVA at fault in massive 2008 coal-ash spill
A federal judge has ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for the 2008 coal-ash spill that dumped thick sludge across a community in eastern Tennessee, destroying three homes.
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Disney’s pollution of America may also be literal
The EPA suspects that Disney Studios may have introduced carcinogenic chromium 6 into the regional water supply.