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How a cop’s blows turned Richmond’s Andres Soto into a climate activist
In Richmond, Calif., Chevron always pulled the strings -- till a group of progressives started fighting back. Here's how all that started.
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Vermont will label genetically engineered food
The state's rule -- the first in the nation -- faces likely challenges in court, and could be overridden by a federal law.
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Plastic Bag Bans Spreading in the United States
By Janet Larsen and Savina Venkova Los Angeles rang in the 2014 New Year with a ban on the distribution of plastic bags at the checkout counter of big retailers, making it the largest of the 132 cities and counties around the United States with anti-plastic bag legislation. And a movement that gained momentum in […]
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Corn waste-based ethanol could be worse for the climate than gasoline
Cellulosic ethanol was supposed to be a climate savior, but a new study casts doubt on that assumption.
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Students Sit-In, Rally to Get Washington University to Cut Ties With Peabody Coal
If you’re looking for clean energy inspiration, we’ve had lots of it this past week, courtesy of a phenomenal group of Washington University (St. Louis) students who are holding a sit-in until the school cuts ties with Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company. For almost two weeks now, students have been holding a sit-in […]
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Numbers on the board: The Gulf Coast, four years after the BP disaster
BP says the coast is clear. Here are the numbers. You be the judge.
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Here’s how the media is getting the story on cities & millennials wrong
The trendsetters at the New York Times tell us that millennials are flocking to urban centers. That’s partly true, but not just for the reasons the Times mentions.
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The Opportunity to Overturn Three Costly Values in Our Energy System
Earlier this year I worked as an election judge for the city of Minneapolis. It was the city’s second experience with ranked choice voting, a system where instead of voting for a single candidate, you get to pick your top three choices. If your first choice candidate is mathematically eliminated from winning, your vote is […]
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Climate change got you down this Earth Day? Time for a badger mask
Hopelessness peddler Paul Kingsnorth keeps winning attention for his Dark Mountain project, but his climate fatalism looks more like midlife-crisis posturing than insight.
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Wanna know what’s happened to the Gulf Coast since the BP spill? Read this blog, now
The Bridge the Gulf blog is hands-down the best source of post-spill news and insight, written by locals who have a stake in the recovery.
