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Alpha coal executives get $2 million bonuses amid falling stock price and record Clean Water Act fines
Alpha Natural Resources, the third largest US coal company, had a rough few days in the stock market last week. First, it tumbled after news that the company would have to pay $200 million to stop illegally dumping toxic pollution into the waterways of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, as well as a […]
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Photo crop: Iowa high schoolers explain where your food comes from
Lexicon of Sustainability trained some teens in its image-making techniques, and they went hog wild. Check out the results.
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Mass transit ridership grows from pathetically low to just low
Last year, Americans took more trips on mass transit than in any year since 1956 -- but our population has doubled since then, so the stat is not so impressive.
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Four new ozone-destroying gases found sneaking around the stratosphere
Three new CFCs and one new HCFC turned up when no one was looking, but scientists still don't know where these human-made ozone-eaters are coming from.
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Can a Novel City-Utility Partnership Green a Big City Grid?
In pursuit of a cleaner energy future last August, the city of Minneapolis came to the brink of putting a city-owned utility on the ballot. It was the culmination of a grassroots effort to get cleaner energy and local investment from the city’s energy utilities. It won’t be a city-owned utility on the agenda this […]
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Bogus, brah, climate change is stealing sick rides
Global warming will mean fewer big waves for Australia's Bondi Beach.
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Alpha & Omega-3s: Salmon farmers’ quest for the ultimate green feed
Farmed fish can only spare the ocean if we swap out the fish oil in their feed for a lower-impact alternative.
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Thanks to these sweet posters, green habits have never looked cooler
Do the Green Thing is celebrating Earth Hour by releasing a new poster every day until March 29. Here are some of our favorites.
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New report warns of “cascading system failure” caused by climate change
The outlook in this new government report is as scary/glum/depressing as it sounds, so line up some cute animal vids to watch after this.
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Big Oil’s new strategy: If you can’t build a new pipeline, just overload the old one
The Canadian government has given pipeline giant Enbridge the green light to pump tar-sands oil through an aging line north of Lake Ontario. What could possibly go wrong?
