The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Inc., and Western Nebraska Resources Council sued the U.S. for starting work preemptively on the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Department of Energy thought (but not that hard! Really!) about giving Solyndra an additional $469 million loan.

The mystery of why the FBI kept British environmentalist John Stewart from entering the country: Explained. Apparently the bureau was concerned he would super-glue himself to Sarah Palin.

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Some of the oldest Arctic ice melted this summer.

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As Barack Obama always says: Drill, baby, drill! Wait, that wasn’t Obama? Well, now it is.

One more reason to <3 Ellen Page.