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Cleaner Drilling: If We’re Going to Drill Anyway, Can We Make It More Efficient?

Technological Innovation and Concern for the Environment Are Helping to Clean Up Drilling for Oil and Gas…

We Need to Reevaluate Our Relationship With Oil

Given rising prices, dwindling supply and environmental hazards, the United States desperately needs to reevaluate its relationship with oil…

Vegan Health Benefits Outweigh the Risks

What are the health benefits of going vegan anyway? You’ll live longer, enjoy improved physical fitness, protect against osteoporosis, and lose weight…

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Tribes March in DC for Water and for Mother Earth

Tribal members, environmentalists & sympathizers gathered in Washington DC on March 10 to protest the greenlighting of the Dakota Access Pipeline…

Cleantech: Still The Next Big Thing For American Venture Capitalists?

Is so-called cleantech (alternative energy and related sectors) still the next big thing for American venture capitalists?

Is off-shore oil drilling actually safer now than ever?

Dear EarthTalk: Is off-shore drilling any safer for the environment today given lessons learned from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? —Leslie Jackson, Bern, NC The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in 2010 resulted in 11 lost lives and hundreds of […]

Can we really get off coal by 2050?

Dear EarthTalk: How does the Rocky Mountain Institute think we can get off of oil and coal by 2050 and save money in the process? — James Greenville, Redding, CT Colorado-based sustainability think-tank Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) was founded in 1982 by American physicist and environmentalist Amory Lovins to research and promote market-based solutions to our energy […]