The Worst Way to Measure Energy Efficiency

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The international focus on “energy intensity” is hurting the fight against climate change.

MAP: Is The Next Fukushima in Your Backyard?

Clockwise from top left: Byron Nuclear Station; Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant; Perry Nuclear Plant; Brunswick Steam Electric Plant. Each experienced a "near miss" in 2012. Photos via NRC/Flickr

Two years after Fukushima, some US nuclear power plants are still having meltdown scares.

Top 4 Reasons the US Still Doesn’t Have a Single Offshore Wind Turbine

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The UK has 870. Germany has 416. So what’s stopping us?

Salazar: On Energy, Expect Four More Years of the Same

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The outgoing interior secretary predicts little change in second-term Obama energy policies.

Inside the Military’s Clean-Energy Revolution

Frank Stockton

Damn the deniers, the doubters, and the do-nothing Congress. The Pentagon is moving full green ahead.

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