Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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Utilities to battery-powered solar: Get off our lawn
As utilities see how distributed solar, aided by new storage tech, can chip away at their monopolies (and profits), they're fighting back.
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Meet the Andy Griffith who’s going after fracking polluters
In Texas, some small-town sleuths on the illegally ditched-sofa beat are stumbling on big-time dumping of toxic fracking waste.
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![Firefighters battle the so-called Poinsettia Fire in Carlsbad, California May 14, 2014.]()
![Firefighters battle the so-called Poinsettia Fire in Carlsbad, California May 14, 2014.]()
House Republicans to EPA: “We’ll take your money and give it to fires!”
The GOP wants to cut EPA funding and block the agency from regulating CO2, while steering some of that money to firefighting efforts.
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“It’s raining renewable energy loans!” shrieks DOE, racing to the dance floor
The Department of Energy announced a $4 billion loan guarantee program for renewable energy projects, Solyndra be damned.
