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December 20, 2015

Solar company that got millions from Oregon to suspend Portland operations

The company based in San Jose, Calif., notified the state Monday that it would suspend its Portland operations in June and lay off 29 workers.

December 20, 2015

Customers tell horror stories of green company that gets $422M in tax dollars

SolarCity customers are complaining about problems such as shoddy installation, poor customer service and hidden fees.

December 10, 2015

Trailblazing Israeli electric car company announces it will fold

Perhaps Israel's best known clean-tech company, Better Place was developing a nationwide network of charging and battery-swapping stations.

December 9, 2015

The future of climate change action is in Washington, not Paris

The 2010 climate meeting ended as a dramatic failure. Now we are back in Paris, hoping that history does not repeat itself.

December 7, 2015

US government shutdown threatens plans for giant Antarctic marine sanctuary

The U.S. government shutdown is threatening a long-awaited deal to create the world's largest marine sanctuary in Antarctica.

December 7, 2015

Climate summit: Why we believe Paris proposals doom billions to live in extreme poverty

Economic growth is the only way for whole societies to rise out of poverty. And economic development cannot occur without abundant, affordable, reliable, non-intermittent, on-demand energy.

November 24, 2015

The king of Sweden doesn't want you to bathe

“I really felt ashamed then, I really did,” King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden confessed to Swedish-language newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in an interview published Saturday, the Local reports.

November 23, 2015

Study finds big threat to Amazon's tree species

More than half of the Amazon's 15,000 tree species may be facing extinction if governments can't curb deforestation, a new study says.

November 21, 2015

Washington diver's giant octopus hunt ignites wrath of Puget Sound advocates

A teen diver has incurred the wrath of a Washington state community by breaking an unwritten code when he dragged a live giant Pacific octopus from the water.

November 5, 2015

Welcome to Hell: Photographer documents Africa’s e-waste nightmare

Slag heaps of rusting electronics, old refrigerators and monitors are scattered everywhere in Agbogbloshie, a dumping ground in Ghana for electronic waste from the rest of the world -- including the United States.