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Bloomberg: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
Center of the American Experiment has been at the forefront of exposing the short lifespan and enormous cost associated with decommissioning wind turbines at the end of their 20 year useful life. Well...
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Can Mining in Minnesota Reduce Child Labor in the Congo?
Cobalt has become a controversial topic in the debate over copper nickel mining in Minnesota’s Duluth Complex. This metal, which is used in the lithium ion batteries in laptops, tablets, and electri...
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Baltimore County Admits It Hasn’t Been Recycling Glass for 7 Years. It Still Encourages Residents to Recycle Glass.
The following article originally appeared in Reason. Baltimore County residents’ have had their perceptions about where their glass ends up shattered. Over the weekend, news broke that the cou...
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Clear Energy Alliance: Bernie’s Energy Plans Make AOC Look Sane
We may never truly know if Bernie or Mayor Pete won the Iowa caucuses, but thanks to our friends at the Clear Energy Alliance, we do know that the energy plans of Bernie Sanders are less realistic tha...
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Pollution Control Agency Steps in It on Cow Emissions, Shows They Have No Business Regulating Greenhouse Gases On the Agriculture Industry
Last year, I wrote about how the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA), a group that opposes mining and reliable natural gas and coal-fired power plants, sued the Minnesota Pollution Cont...
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