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A wind turbine failure off Massachusetts exposed deep vulnerabilities in the nation's offshore energy ambitions—and raised uncomfortable questions about who bears the cost when renewable energy goes wrong.

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A Wisconsin county found that dairy waste could solve a winter road problem—and cut salt use by a third in the process.

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