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Critical List: More than 800,000 anti-Keystone messages delivered; Obama could veto transportation bill

The anti-Keystone email campaign gathered more than 800,000 messages to Senate leadership. Check out this picture of the messages being delivered.

Internal documents from Heartland Institute, the climate-denying think tank, show funding from sources like Microsoft, Koch Industries (which had reportedly stopped funding the institute), tobacco companies, and other corporations. One "Anonymous Donor" gave more than $1.6 million in 2010 and $979,000 in 2011.

The White House said senior advisers would recommend the president veto the House version of the transportation bill, citing provisions to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Maybe Republicans didn't hear that after its completion, the pipeline could create as few as 20 permanent jobs.

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Critical List: Obama budget ups clean energy funding; Monsanto poisoned farmer

Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy that chocolate now: it could be harder to find as climate change takes its toll on the cacao tree. Here are some other "green(ish)" ideas for presents to the one you love, be it your sweetie, your kid, your BFF, or your favorite teacher. And here’s Grist’s V-day roundup.

President Obama's 2013 budget increased funding for renewable energy by 29 percent.

In France, a judge found Monsanto guilty of poisoning a farmer who was exposed some of the company's weedkiller.

Hurricanes could tear up offshore wind turbines

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Critical List: Trader Joe’s signs Fair Food agreement; newborn baby tapir

Trader Joe's signed a Fair Food agreement with Coalition of Immokalee Workers that increased the price the company pays per pound of tomatoes.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu defended the Energy Department's loan guarantee program, after a independent review outlined possible improvements to the program's oversight. The White House is pointing out that the review showed the total program portfolio has less risk than previously thought.

The new Maldives government faces an investigation by the Commonwealth of Nations, an organization of countries once under British rule. Former President Mohamed Nasheed says the new government forced him from office at gunpoint.

This round of La Niña, which has had a hand in the Northeast's warm winter, should have run its course by May.

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Critical List: IG blesses State’s Keystone work; fair trade gasoline

The State Department's inspector general has delivered his report on the Keystone XL environmental review process, and concludes that TransCanada did not improperly influence the assessment. The gist of the report is that the review wasn’t corrupt, just incompetent.

Two nuclear new reactors have been approved, the first ones since 1978.

The Pennsylvania government could actually levy fees on hydrofracking projects.

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Critical List: Approval coming for two nuclear plants; warrant issued for Nasheed’s arrest

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will give its blessing to two new nuclear power plants in Georgia today.

There's a warrant out for the arrest of Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldivian president and environmental crusader forced to resign at gunpoint. The new president, who deposed him, says the warrant will be used only to ensure Nasheed’s safety. Nasheed was also injured in a protest yesterday.

The Lorax (the movie) has commercial sponsors. They're "green" commercial sponsors (like, um, DoubleTree? It does have "tree" in its name …) But still.

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Critical List: GM seed plantings expand; restaurants for vultures

Last night’s caucus put GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum back in the game, so we could be hearing a lot more about how global warming is a “hoax.”

The total area planted with GM seed around the world rose 8 percent last year, according to the biotech industry; a food and water NGO is disputing the figure.

The House Energy and Commerce committee moved forward a bill that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Vendors at Grand Canyon National Park won't be selling disposable water bottles.

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Critical List: Australia floods break records; industrial agriculture is booming

Floods in Australia are rising to record levels. We told you Australia is screwed.

Guys. GUYS! Mitt Romney also gave out renewable energy loans as governor of Massachusetts OMG WTF SOLYNDRA BRAIN EXPLODES.

San Francisco is working to integrate electric bicycles into its car share service.

Russian scientists have drilled a hole through two miles of ice to reach Antarctica's largest subglacial lake.

Why are so many dolphins being found stranded on Cape Cod?

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Critical List: China’s emissions outstrip America’s; Bill Gates hearts geoengineering

By 2015, China will emit 50 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than the United States does.

The Texas drought has forced some towns to ship in their water by truck.

Bill Gates is underwriting geoengineering lobbying efforts.

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Critical List: Sierra Club took natural gas money; solar panels made from grass clippings

The Sierra Club's executive director, Michael Brune, revealed that from 2007 to 2010 the environmental group took more than $26 million of donations from people and companies connected to the natural gas industry.

The Obama administration is moving forward with offshore wind development.

Warming oceans are encouraging the growth of coral … for now.

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Critical List: Groundhog says six more winter weeks; zoos need more elephants

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, which means six more weeks of winter. But that dude has since his shadow more than 100 times; he's only not seen it 16 times. Honestly, getting your weather forecast from a giant rodent is like getting your climate science from a weather forecaster.

Locusts thrive on overgrazed lands.

Accredited zoos will need to have three elephants, if they have any elephants at all.

Spain probably shouldn't have killed its subsidies for renewable energy.

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