Archive: May 2012
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Which banks provide the most support for coal?
A new report looks at which of the biggest banks in the country provide the most financial support for the coal industry.
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Critical List: EPA official resigns; skeptics think clouds will save us
Al Armendariz, the EPA official who said he’d crucify environmental lawbreakers, resigned. Two of the last few northern white rhinos on earth have done it. (You know, IT.) No word yet if the pair’s expecting a little rhino, but there’s a video, if you want to see what rhino sex looks like. The National Zoo’s […]
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New child farm labor regulations dead — thanks to Sarah Palin’s expertise?
Last week, everyone's favorite pundit spoke out against updates in farm regulations that might have kept the youngest farmworkers from the most dangerous work. And it looks like it worked.
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Apple’s dirty energy supplier: ‘Nothing to see here’
Duke Energy, which supplies power to an Apple data center in North Carolina, pulled a paper from its website that bragged about Apple’s energy-guzzling ways.
