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  • After Sandy, No One Lined Up for Wind Turbines

    Last year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged $50 million to the Sierra Club for its “beyond coal” campaign. But the mayor hasn’t—and won’t—be directing any cash to the club’s parallel “beyond oil” campaign.

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  • Why More and More Americans Don’t Vote

    For weeks, Democrats have been lambasting Mitt Romney over his bone-headed remark about the “47 percent of people” who want something from government and therefore won’t be voting for him.

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  • Both Candidates Push Myth of Energy Independence

    Ugh. It’s back. Politicians and pundits on both the left and the right are once again buzzing with the most hackneyed phrase in modern American politics: energy independence.

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  • Subsidizing Bird Kills: the Wind Industry’s Preferences Include Exemptions From Federal Prosecution for Killing Wildlife

    Last month, Senatory Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, lambasted his colleagues for not extending the production tax credit, the 2.2 cent-per-kilowatt-hour subsidy for wind energy that expires at the end of this year.

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  • A123 Goes Chapter 11

    Tuesday’s headlines gave Mitt Romney a golden opportunity to attack President Obama and his “green” energy agenda during the second presidential debate.

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  • Against the Wind

    Gov. Cuomo last month ordered state officials to study the health effects of hydraulic fracturing — and so continued to prevent drillers from exploiting the Marcellus Shale.

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  • Ask the Experts: Alternative Energy

    We heard both candidates discuss alternative energy at this week’s presidential debate in Denver.

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  • Claremont Mckenna Students Try Life on $1 a Day in ‘living on One’

    Could you survive on a single dollar a day? That’s what two U.S. college students attempted in rural Guatemala, and their experience—complete with fleabites and giardia—was filmed for the new documentary Living on One.

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  • The Cost of Wind-energy Jobs

    Proponents of wind-energy projects frequently claim that wind is free. That may be true, but creating jobs in the wind-energy business is a very expensive proposition.

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  • Democrats and Republicans Support Harmful Ethanol Subsidies for the Sake of Votes

    Corn ethanol is the Franken fuel of American politics. Neither party, neither candidate dares question the program that requires motorists to buy a corrosive, low-heat-content, hydrophilic fuel adulterant—even though that program is now consuming 37 percent of all American corn production and driving up food prices.

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