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The Numbers Behind Our Clean Power Plan Video (Or Lightning Bolts And The...
Inside Energy recently made a video about what the Clean Power Plan means for you (if you haven’t seen it yet, go check it out!). And in that video, we used a lot of numbers: 98 quadrillion Btu (the...
View ArticleInteractive: What’s Your Future Electricity Mix Look Like?
The Clean Power Plan is a federal rule aimed at cleaning up the carbon footprint of our electricity. (Psst! Learn the basics in our video.) As we head into a legal battles over whether the rule is an...
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U.S. Electricity Prices Are Down For the First Time In A Decade…But Not...
Electricity prices typically move in one direction: up. But for the first time in more than a decade, residential electricity prices have dropped nationally. The drop is nearly one percent on average,...
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IE Questions: How Does The Government Subsidize Oil And Gas?
What kind of subsidies does natural gas get from the government? Simple question, right? But the response is complicated. This question was submitted by one of our audience members, and it’s one the...
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Surprises In Oil And Gas Campaign Spending
Jordan Wirfs-BrockThis chart shows oil/gas and coal company contributions to presidential candidate committees. It includes contributions from company PACs as well as individuals employed by the...
View ArticleYour Most Pressing Dakota Access Pipeline Questions, Answered
What’s going on with that pipeline in North Dakota? Momentum behind the Dakota Access pipeline protests has been building for months. The 1,200 mile-long pipeline project is controversial, involving...
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The Uncertain Future Of Energy R&D
The Obama years have been a good time for those involved in energy research and development, particularly clean energy and climate change research. In 2009, stimulus funds boosted energy R&D...
View ArticleVideo: Our Relationship With Energy Is Broken, So Let’s Fix It
Editor’s note: Our own data journalist Jordan Wirfs-Brock gave this talk at “It’s About Time,” a TEDxMileHighWomen event in Denver in September 2016. Here’s why she decided to do it: In my nearly three...
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IE Questions: Super Grid! Spanning Continents In A Single Bound!
Somewhere in the world, the sun and wind are always shining and blowing, and people are always using electricity. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get renewable power from the windy and sunny places to...
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IE Questions: Where Does Fracking Water Go?
Oil and water don’t mix, they say, but when it comes to drilling an oil and gas well, water is a big part of the process. Each day, 2.4 billion gallons of wastewater pour out of U.S. oil and gas wells...
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