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Utilities can meet EPA standards without threatening reliability
Coal utilities are trying to scare Congress into thinking that if EPA follows up with its planned regulations, electricity rates will soar and there will be reliability problems in the electricity grid. Is it true? According to a comprehensive new analysis, no.
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The U.S.-China three legged race
Visualize the US and China tethered together, but each trying to beat the other to a prize more valuable than hot dogs: dominance in the 21st century
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The (incredibly loud) sound of SunChips on the Today Show — featuring Grist!
Watch the Today Show -- and me! -- break down the issue of SunChips' new and noisy biodegradable bag.
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They paved paradise and put up a (solar) parking lot
REC Solar announced a deal to install a photovoltaic array on a hospital's carports. At 2.9 megawatts, the installation will be the nation's largest solar carport complex.
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A chicken poo-powered fuel cell
On Tuesday, FuelCell Energy, announced the sale of a 1.4-megawatt chicken poo-powered fuel cell to an egg farm in California's Central Valley.
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Enviros and Big Oil take their battle on the road
After our summer with the Senate, it's time to move on to something with a pulse. How about dueling roadshows, Enviros vs. Big Oil?
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Fred Flintstone wants this car and so should you
When your car is powered by pure muscle, backseat drivers are more than welcome. But to get your hands on one from HumanCar, you might have to get in line behind Fred Flintstone. Take a look at the future -- or is it the past? -- of transportation.
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Texas oil vs. California clean tech: the battle over Proposition 23
Out-of-state petro dollars have been fueling the effort to suspend California's landmark climate change law. Now the opposition to Proposition 23 is fighting back. The No on 23 campaign has forged a surprising new coalition of green groups looking to save the planet and the Silicon Valley tech firms, venture capitalists, and old-line corporations looking to profit from decarbonizing California.
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Why it matters that spilled Michigan oil came from tar sands
Brace yourselves for this: An energy executive has been caught bending the truth to downplay an environmental disaster.
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D.C. schools refuse to disclose food-rebate accounting
Attorneys for D.C. Public Schools have refused to release an accounting of more than $1 million in rebates received from corporate food manufacturers, claiming that details about the rebates constitute "trade secrets."