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Denmark calls in armed commandos to fend off Greenpeace
Hippies near an oil rig! Send in the SWAT team! The Guardian is reporting that armed Danish commandos have been helicoptered onto an oil rig off Greenland, out of fears […]
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Japan to mandate solar panels on all new buildings
What do you do if your country depended on nuke plants for energy, but is now too freaked out about nuclear disaster to trust them anymore? You harness the awesome […]
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Authorities finally admit that all three reactors at Fukushima melted down
It's official: All of Fukushima's working reactors saw drops in their water levels sufficient to melt their radioactive cores. (Experts have been telling us this for months, but Japanese power […]
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Pippa Middleton an ass … et at her ex’s geothermal energy firm
Everyone's favorite bridesmaid Pippa Middleton likes hot, wet … underground energy sources. The younger sister of the newly crowned Princess of Wales just took a job at ex-boyfriend's geothermal energy […]
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Maybe fracked natural gas isn’t dirtier than coal, after all
The climate story on natural gas is gnarlier than ever. First there was a paper from Robert Howarth of Cornell claiming that natural gas from fracking is worse than coal, […]
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Flashback: In 2003, Romney attacked coal jobs that ‘kill people’
Cross-posted from Climate Progress. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, like his fellow GOP contenders, supports unlimited coal and oil production and opposes cap-and-trade markets to limit greenhouse pollution. Romney calls […]
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New, ‘hidden’ source of renewable energy fights for tax breaks
Waste heat: It's everywhere, and we're wasting it. (Hence the name.) Giant industrial processes throw off enormous amounts of the stuff, all of it not quite hot enough to be […]
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L.A. Times: Obama is throwing ‘the environment and public health under a bus’ to get reelected
Photo: The White HouseThe L.A. Times has delivered a blistering editorial that everybody in the White House should read: In the 2012 campaign, environmentalists don’t matter That’s the message President […]
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Denmark’s government throws down the gauntlet: 100 percent renewables by 2050
Lots of people talk about the possibility of getting to 100 percent renewables by such and such a date — if every one of these reports came true, we'd be […]
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Dem Disease claims another victim
Beware Dem Disease.Joseph Aldy worked for a while as a top energy aide in Obama’s White House. Apparently, while he was there he caught Dem Disease. Dem Disease is an […]
