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Electric Motorcycle Hits 150 MPH, Breaks Speed Record
Mission Motors Can Say: Mission AccomplishedWhen we first wrote about the Mission One electric motorcycle by Mission Motors, some people were skeptical that it would perform as well as the company claimed. Well, today Mission
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Utah Wakes Up To The Smell Of Coal - In Fear Of Economic "Disaster"
Utah currently gets 93% of it's energy from burning coal. Mercury emitted by Utah's coal consuming habit helps make hunting and fishing there sports of 'catch and toss.'
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Mercury Rising: Temperature Will Soar in Some U.S. States Within the Century
The heat is on. We all know climate change is a very real and very dangerous fact of life, and many
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Logan Utah Wastewater Lagoons To Be Transformed Into Algae Biofuel and Fertilizer Producing Facility
For years I've been reading press releases about impractical-sounding
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8 College-Town Breweries Producing Great, Green Beer
Savvy, environmentally conscious (and of age!) beer enthusiasts know that even when you're in college, there's more to beer than dollar Pabst at the neighborhood dive. Microbreweries are leading the way when it comes to
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Utah's Four-Day Workweek Program A Big Energy Saver
The Associated Press is reporting this morning that Utah's plan to close state offices on Fridays has resulted in a 13% reduction in energy use. The program began last August, when about 17,000 of the state's 24,000 executive branch
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The Week in Pictures: Obama's Battery Plan, Cute Critters, Clunkers and Other Cars, and More
From politics to taxidermy, a lot happened this week. Obama announced that $2.4 billion in funding will go to 48 different battery-operated and electric vehicle projects; cash for clunkers had a wild ride; we discovered a solar-powered forest, and a
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Eco-Rally to Transverse America
Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start
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September Promises to be Killer Month for Wolf Hunters
Within weeks, grey wolves in the Northern Rockies will be on the business-end of high-powered hunting rifles. Most people remember back in May 2009 that the Obama Administration delisted the wolves from the endangered species
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Quote Of The Day: Sarah Palin "should also lead the nation's mothers to oppose mandating replacement of incandescent light bulbs with the new mercury poison gas bulbs."
Peter Ferrara, who served under US Presidents Reagan & Bush, just tossed an Independence Day stink bomb at tree huggers and climate realists. Fox News,
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Bureau of Land Management to Designate Solar Power Fast Track Areas in Six Western States
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has just announced that the Bureau of Land Management will designate some 24 sites in six western states as Solar Energy Study Areas; and will establish new solar power permitting offices and
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Rainwater Harvesting Poised To Grow In US West
With the news that the US State of Colorado has decided to make it legal for small farmers to collect rainwater - holding out the possibility that city dwellers, too, may one day be offered legal means to harvest rain - a tipping point approaches.
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US Government Awards Millions To Create "Forest Thinning" Jobs
U.S. Department of the Interior will grant $15 million to 55 projects to "thin overgrown forests" [logging] and remove potential fuels for wildfires on public lands" [so the wood can
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Dept of Interior Sued by Oil Drilling Companies for Revoking Utah Exploration Leases
You probably could've guessed it would happen: Back in February the Department of Interior revoke oil and gas exploration leases on public land in Utah, which had been authorized by the Bush administration,
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Robert Redford: Utah's Renewable Energy Opportunity is Vast
photo: Mike Saliba via flickr Robert Redford may be opposed to a new green housing development in Napa—and for what it's worth his objections are sound on the siting of the project—but in a recent opinion piece for the Salt Lake Tribune, he makes the
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Fashionable Babes on Bikes Hit the Great Salt Lake
"Utah" and "Fashion" have never necessarily gone together, so adding "Bicycle" probably won't give you much more of a mental picture. But urban bike riding of all kinds and even the concept of bike commuting is alive and
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New Google Earth Layer Shows What US Lands Should Be Off-Limits to Renewable Energy Development
As Senator Feinstein's recent talk about making 500,000 acres of the Mojave desert off-limits to renewable energy development, on the conservation grounds, goes to show, conflicts over siting large projects is no less likely just because the project is
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Dept of Interior Cancels Bush Administration Oil Shale Leasing Plans
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar may think that oil shale has great potential but at least he's scrapping plans put in place by the Bush
