"I'm not afraid to say I'm a skeptic about [climate change]." — Rick Perry, ladies and gentlemen. So fearless.

A Bloomberg investigation found that Koch Industries has paid bribes to obtain contracts and sold Iran petrochemical equipment, in violation of the U.S. trade ban.

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Trees are nice. Probably not a great idea to destroy them all.

If you have an electric toothbrush, extra-large fridge, laptop, iPad, iPhone, multiple flat screen TVs, a flat screen monitor, and god knows what else — you're killing us here!

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China wanted its high-speed rail system to represent the country's superior technology, but it’s actually built with imported tech that local engineers weren't really familiar with. Result: engineers with low job satisfaction, oh and also possibly the crash that killed 40 people.

Seattle's starting to clean up the Duwamish River, which is full of PCBs.

Remember when a river of toxic of mud spread out over Hungary? The E.U. hasn't done much to prevent another disaster like that from happening.

Climate change is not only coming for your coffee, it's coming for your chocolate. We're all going to be really sleepy and stressed out.

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