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How a Koch brother is combating climate change at a coal mine
What do Bill Koch, the Aspen Skiing Company, and environmentalists all have in common? We visited a coal mine in Colorado to find out.
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EPA, community activists put toxic oil refineries in a headlock
Thanks to a lawsuit brought by environmental justice activists, the feds are about to crack down on the chemical stew these plants dump into the air.
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What’s the best way to dispose of an old car battery?
A reader's battery has shuffled off this mortal coil. Umbra says Mexican recycling plants make calamity of so long a life.
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See-through solar cells could turn your windows into power stations
Even Harry Potter would be impressed.
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This meat substitute is all-natural and GMO-free — and might be making people sick
A nonprofit group says Quorn, the mushroom-based fake meat, is causing real illnesses and asks the FDA to regulate it.
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Why Vandana Shiva is so right and yet so wrong
The environmental crusader has a beautiful vision of the world we'd like to have. Too bad she has such a loose way with the factual details.
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People are mistaking strangers’ cars for Ubers
Don't turn around too fast, but we think Uber put a drunk person in your backseat.
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Magical algae turns sewage into biofuel and Dasani
By Dasani, we mean potable tap water. And by sewage, we mean sewage.
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Another coal export terminal bites the dust
Oregon has rejected plans for a coal export project along the Columbia River -- just the latest sign of the coal industry's decline.
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Thousands of birds are igniting mid-air. What’s solar got to do with it?
The world's largest solar thermal power plant is under fire for its potentially catastrophic impact on local birds.
