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For some reason, this lady is mad about Enbridge cutting down her trees without permission
Canada-based Enbridge illegally chopped down about 50 trees to make way for a tar-sands pipeline -- a replacement for the pipeline that caused the largest on-shore oil spill in U.S. history two years ago.
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Next-level sh!t: Bill Gates has seen the future, and it is craptacular
Bill and Melinda Gates host the Super Bowl for the toilet of the future, inspiring some seriously space-age concraptions.
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Kentucky coal headed to India under new deal
From the Louisville Courier-Journal: Kentucky coal producers have reached an agreement to export 9 million tons of coal annually to India for the next 25 years in a $7 billion deal. Gov. Steve Beshear’s office announced Wednesday that New Jersey-based FJS Energy LLC signed the deal with India’s Abhijeet Group to purchase coal exports from […]
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Shell gets it backward, starts polluting Alaskan water before it drills
The Keystone Kops of oil exploration are up to more wacky hijinks.
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One down: Planned coal export terminal in Washington is cancelled
Several coal export terminals have been proposed along the West Coast. Now there's one less for activists to fight.
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Electric DeLorean could get you back to a slightly less grim future
When we think about how we’re going to save the environment from the ravages of fossil fuels, our first thought is not generally “with gull-wing doors.” Well, luckily not everyone thinks inside the box, and this is why Stephen Wynne, the British mechanic who bought the entire DeLorean inventory, is going to revive the DeLorean […]
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Enbridge CEO tries to defend tar-sands pipeline, says ridiculous nonsense
Enbridge chief Patrick Daniel went on the radio to try to convince people to like his company's plan for a pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia, and ended up just eating his feet.
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Meet Harold Hamm, the billionaire oil tycoon who’s advising Mitt Romney on energy
A profile of Hamm in the Washington Post seems bound to get people to like him. They shouldn't.
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Smile! You’re on constant camera: What does the end of privacy mean for green causes?
Is privacy passe? And what does a surveillance society mean for green causes?
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The Gates Foundation just bought 50 gallons of fake poo
Bill Gates is into scat. His foundation is hard at work on a new space-age toilet, and to test the prototypes, it just bought 50 gallons of soybean-based fake feces from a soybean-based fake feces company. That’s some of it up above, sitting a lot closer to a dude’s hand than I’d want it to […]
