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What’s At Stake: Clean Air and Public Health in our Highest Courts on December 10
This Tuesday, December 10, our nation’s highest courts will hear two landmark Clean Air Act cases that have big implications for public health. First and foremost, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. Back in 2011, EPA unveiled this update of a critical public health protection […]
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Is genetic engineering a doomed effort to reinvent nature’s wheel?
Much GMO research is just walking roads that evolution already tried. Is gene-splicing a dead end and should scientists just move on?
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Legalize pot, save a lot of energy
To be blunt: Indoor marijuana cultivation accounts for 1 percent of all U.S. electricity usage. But legalization would help weed go solar.
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Why Rand Paul’s plan won’t save Detroit
The Tea Party senator thinks slashing taxes is the solution to Detroit's woes (as well as every other problem in the country). Actually, it's not.
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What kind of crazy anti-environment bills is ALEC pushing now?
ALEC keeps the punches rolling with anti-green legislation: Fighting renewable energy standards and emissions caps, handing over public lands to oil and gas, and more.
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Which Hollywood-style climate disasters will strike in your lifetime?
Here's a list of some of the most dreaded abrupt changes, and the probability that they'll happen anytime soon.
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Big corporations are getting ready for carbon taxes, even if we’re not
You know it's bad when oil companies see the light on carbon taxing before the tax-collectors do.
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Triple threat: Obama orders federal agencies to boost clean energy use threefold
As part of his climate plan, the president cleans up his own house by calling on the federal government to use more renewable electricity.
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Will Your Tax Dollars Fund a Highway that’s a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in Disguise?
Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal mining is already a shocking, devastating, and destructive practice on its own – but what happens when you add in coal companies making deals with […]
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Could you sue Chevron or Exxon for screwing up the climate?
We now know the precise extent to which big fossil-fuel companies are responsible for climate change, but U.S. courts are slower to assign blame.
