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Coal is rebounding, natural gas prices are up, and the world’s oil cartel is quite content
Times are good for the merchants of fossil fuels, with coal and natural gas prices on the rise and OPEC crowing about high demand for oil.
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Crappy solar panels threaten industry growth
The New York Times reports on a rise in defective solar panels. Experts blame the problems on cost-cutting Chinese firms.
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Walmart fined $82 million for dumping poisons
Walmart employees weren't trained on how to handle returned pesticides and other hazardous liquids, so they dumped them down drains and into the trash.
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Former EPA chief Lisa Jackson takes a job at Apple
Jackson will join the tech giant as vice president for environmental initiatives, to coordinate green activity across the company.
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What’s threatening utilities: Innovation at the edge of the grid (with dik-diks!)
Utilities are threatened by innovation at the "distribution edge" of the grid. Here's a closer look at those innovations and what they mean.
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Organic beer: Here to stay, or barley there?
In our recent guide to sustainable beer, we dismissed organic beer as a minor concern. We revisit it to learn we only barely tapped the keg.
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Fukushima meltdown’s latest victims: American uranium jobs
The feds are shutting down a Kentucky facility that enriches uranium as the world shies away from nuclear power.
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Zen and the art of bridge maintenance
When it comes to U.S. transportation infrastructure, we'd rather build new roads than deal with the old ones -- or the bigger questions about how we get around.
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This pedal-powered contraption can run a computer, split logs, or churn butter
Of course, you have to do the work of pedaling.
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Chemical creep: Farmers return to pesticides as GMO corn loses bug resistance
As the crop-ravaging rootworm grows immune to Monsanto's Bt corn, farmers go back to spraying pesticides to protect their crops.
