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IE Questions: Why Is California Trying To Behead The Duck?
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Answering our latest IE Question, Jordan Wirfs-Brock tells us everything we always wanted to know about ducks, bell curves, and platypuses.
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Answering our latest IE Question, Jordan Wirfs-Brock tells us everything we always wanted to know about ducks, bell curves, and platypuses.
Another massive, costly project is in the works to bring Wyoming wind to the West Coast. Are the Pathfinder/Zephyr Wind Project and the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project in fierce competition or just responding to gigantic demand?
As rooftop solar becomes more affordable, tensions have grown between electric utility companies and residents. Why? A widespread policy called net metering, which requires utilities to purchase back power generated by their customers’ solar panels, is nibbling at utility company’s bottom lines.
KQED reports on how anti-fracking activists are taking the battle to the ballot.
As states ready for the Obama Administration to release new carbon emissions regulations next week, a major question looms: What’s the most sensible way to measure and compare greenhouse gas production? Two states dwarf all others when it comes to sheer amount of carbon dioxide released: Texas and California. Texas is such a carbon giant that it accounts for 12% of U.S. emissions and produces nearly twice as much as the next closest state, California. This graph shows 2011 carbon dioxide emissions based on Energy Information Administration (EIA) data:
But there’s more than one way to slice and dice emissions data. Looking at carbon dioxide produced per dollar earned by industry, the story changes: Wyoming tops all states in carbon emitted per dollar earned, followed by West Virginia and North Dakota.