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Silicon Valley enlists Steve Jobs' wife, Elvis Costello in Prop 23 fight
Laurene Jobs, wife of Apple founder Steve Jobs, donated $200,000 to defeat California's Prop 23 that would suspend the state's global warming law.
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American companies don’t want tar-sands oil on their logos, creating an opening
The most promising responses to the tar sands are the ones that shrink the demand for oil. Shaming companies that use tar-sands oil might help too.
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EPA hands the ethanol lobby a hollow victory
The corn lobby got what it's been clamoring for: the EPA lifted its "blend wall" on ethanol mixes to 15 percent. There's a catch, though, that will make King Corn's victory downright Pyrrhic.
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Car recycling bins are finally here!
You know, when you're ready to trade in your car for bike.
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Feds approve first solar farm on government land in Nevada
The Obama administration's solar boom continues. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the first lease for a huge solar project on federal Nevada land
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What Monsanto’s fall from grace reveals about the GMO seed industry
Once the darling of Wall Street and the Darth Vader of the agribiz universe, Monsanto has fallen on hard times. The reason may have to do with the essentially over-hyped nature of GMO technology.
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Google makes big bet on offshore wind power along East Coast
Google is backing an underwater power transmission system that could bring a wind turbine boom to the Atlantic.
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Are Google's self-driving cars actually signs of Transformers' imminent world domination?
The world is pumped that Google is passing mile markers on the road to creating a fully automatic automobile. But let's consider what we got the last time robot vehicles were allowed to freely roam the earth: Transformers.
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Big Oil money pouring back into California to boost Prop 23
The flow of out-of-state oil money into California to block the state's cutting edge greenhouse-gas law keeps getting stronger.
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Green fraud is even more harmful than greenwashing
The Federal Trade Commission proposed guidelines to address greenwashing. It's a worthy effort, but they should go beyond greenwashing and tackle green fraud
