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You can make fuel cells out of cockroaches
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have figured out how to make cockroaches into creepy-crawly batteries. Finally, living in filth can pay off by lowering your electrical bill!
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The Gulf of Mexico’s seven-year oil spill
Whatever, BP; Taylor Energy Company was spilling oil in the Gulf of Mexico way before it went mainstream. A broken Taylor wellhead has been leaking as much as 4,000 gallons […]
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Just how big are subsidies to fossil-fuel companies? Help us find out
The Institute for Policy Integrity is using crowdsourcing to find out exactly how much companies like Shell and ExxonMobil receive in subsidies and tax breaks.
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This will be the greenest Super Bowl ever
I know football fans feel pretty strongly about doing things exactly the same way every time, lest their switch in underwear or beer brand or whatever be the butterfly’s wing […]
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How the Sierra Club and the natural gas industry broke up
Yesterday, TIME published the news that the Sierra Club had taken more than $25 million dollars from the natural gas industry — specifically, from employees and subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy, […]
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Government will develop wind energy off the Atlantic coast
The federal government has opted to move forward with wind energy development off the coast of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia, and Virginia’s Republican governor for one could not […]
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Brad Pitt on why cars are stupid
Brad Pitt explained the premise of his film Moneyball to Jon Stewart by way of analogy to gas-guzzling cars. Most of the interview wasn’t about green stuff at all (his […]
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Say it ain’t Kosovo: U.S. State Dept. pushes coal in Eastern Europe
Why is the State Department ignoring climate change and pressuring the World Bank to approve loans for a giant coal-fired power plant in Kosovo?
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Does the rebound effect matter for policy?
The existence of rebound effects does not harm the case for energy efficiency. Still, rebound effects are real, so what are the policy implications?
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Why is the State Dept. pushing coal on a tiny Eastern European country?
State and the World Bank are pushing a plan to open a heavily polluting coal plant in Kosovo -- saddling the struggling country with debt and producing much more power than it even needs.
