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Small-scale, distributed renewables: Tiny, but growing fast around the world
Small-scale, locally owned power (mainly solar) is spreading quickly and has enormous potential.
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Shocker: The oil that Isaac washed up on the Gulf Coast is from the BP spill
Literally no one saw this coming. BP, for example, was staggered.
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Utilities beat back community solar bill in California
A bill that would have let anyone in California buy power from small-scale, local renewable projects was killed by big investor-owned utilities.
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Hurricane Isaac leaves tar balls, oiled animals on Louisiana beaches
BP says it's not entirely clear who's to blame. (Really.)
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Old Testament theme park uses donkeys as wifi hotspots, just like in the Bible
If you find yourself at the Israeli biblical theme park Kfar Kedem and you see a flashing light, don’t be alarmed — you are not having a hallucination brought on by Talmudic scholarship and hummus. You are seeing a wireless router affixed to a donkey.
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BP thinks the Gulf is copacetic. The government disagrees. Tony Hayward doesn’t care.
BP is claiming in a civil suit that it's pretty much done cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico. The federal government's response: Like hell.
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New project in Oregon could make wave power a reality
High-tech buoys from Ocean Power Technologies may be the first system that can provide consistent wave energy to the grid.
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Utah OKs nation’s first tar-sands mine
Look, America, you're getting tar-sands oil whether you like it or not.
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Chicago’s notorious Fisk and Crawford coal plants go offline
Chicago will no longer be the only major U.S. city with two coal plants operating within its borders, and that means vast improvements in the health of local residents.
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Curtain rises on California’s planned carbon market
From big emitters to tomato tinners, over 100 California businesses got their first taste of cap-and-trade. Here's how it works.
