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How immigration reform can lead us to a stronger environmental movement
The demographics of the U.S. are changing fast, and mainstream green groups aren't keeping up. It's time for a new, inclusive approach.
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Did climate change cause the epic Great Plains drought?
A report from NOAA finds that last year's drought in the central U.S. was just a freak weather event, but at least one respected climate scientist disagrees.
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InsideClimate wins Pulitzer for reporting on tar-sands spill
The nonprofit news site is being honored for its coverage of a spill into the Kalamazoo River and the broader dangers posed by tar-sands pipelines.
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Amazing Chicago Coal, Clean Air Activist Wins Goldman Environmental Prize
Every year the Goldman Environmental Prize committee selects an amazing group of winners from around the world to receive what is sometimes called the environmental Nobel prize – and I could not be more thrilled with their pick for North America this year: Kim Wasserman Nieto of Chicago, Illinois. Kim is a phenomenal environmental justice […]
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From soybeans to solar – a community energy project sprouts from Wisconsin fields
Just north of Delavan, Wisconsin, is Dan Osborne’s nursery farm. Where you once found a bean field now sit 80 solar panels on 100 tracking towers, generating renewable power for over 125 homes. It’s a small, but successful community-owned energy harvest. The solar farm was developed by Convergence Energy of Lake Geneva, WI and has […]
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Oceans are absorbing excess heat, for now
Climate change is disproportionately warming the oceans, but scientists warn that this trend won't keep landlubbers cool forever.
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Kansas may mandate unsustainable development
A bill in the state House would outlaw use of state funds to promote or practice sustainable development. Tough luck, future generations.
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Moapa to Lead Powerful, Symbolic Walk from Coal to Clean Energy
The 2012 Moapa Band of Paiutes “Walk from Coal to Clean Energy.” Southern Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes are organizing a 16-mile “Walk from Coal to Clean Energy” on April 20, 2013 in concert with Earth Day. This walk will celebrate the tribe’s efforts to retire the polluting Reid Gardner coal plant that adjoins their […]
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Biblical flood means climate change isn’t caused by humans, says Texas Rep. Joe Barton
Barton says Noah's Great Flood was caused by climate change, which proves that carbon emissions don't cause climate change. Or something.
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Obama biofuel budget spills few details, still attacked by House GOP
GOP lawmakers are pushing bills to limit the amount of biofuels in the nation's energy supply and axe requirements that gasoline producers use ethanol.
