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New bills in Congress would crack down on the fracking industry

Legislation introduced in the House would repeal exemptions for oil and gas companies under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.

Jessica Goad Climate & Energy

Frankenfoods hitch a ride through Congress — but you can help stop them

If the "Monsanto rider" becomes law, no judge could halt genetically modified foods from making it onto your table. Is that so wrong?

Tom Laskawy Food and Agriculture

Obama to require climate assessments for big projects like highways and pipelines

Federal agencies will soon have to consider climate change impacts when they do environmental impact assessments.

John Upton Climate & Energy

Standing Up for Clean Water When States Won’t

Imagine that you’ve grown up in a beautiful, hilly countryside near many streams where you played and fished as a child. Now, years later, you can’t even let your own kids or grandkids play in those same waterways because of pollution from a nearby mountaintop-removal coal mine. Such is the reality for thousands of people […]

Mary Anne Hitt Uncategorized

Photos of a lightning storm in a volcano will blow your mind

Did you know that volcanic eruptions can sometimes generate lightning? Well, they can, and it's spectacular.

Jess Zimmerman Uncategorized

Pro-Keystone XL Senate bill follows pattern of following the oil money

Once again, a group of Senators, spearheaded by Hoeven and Baucus, has released a new bill to push for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. And, following the clear pattern set by their colleagues, the co-sponsors of this new bill have enjoyed massive contributions from the fossil fuel industry.

David Turnbull Uncategorized

Iowa and South Dakota Approach 25 Percent Electricity from Wind in 2012: Unprecedented Contribution of Wind Power in U.S. Midwest

By J. Matthew Roney Defying conventional wisdom about the limits of wind power, in 2012 both Iowa and South Dakota generated close to one quarter of their electricity from wind farms. Wind power accounted for at least 10 percent of electricity generation in seven other states. Across the United States, wind power continues to strengthen […]

Earth Policy Institute Uncategorized

Help Henry Waxman write a new carbon-tax bill

The Democratic rep is seeking public feedback as he designs a new climate bill. Herein I offer my two cents.

David Roberts Climate & Energy

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Poisons Appalachia’s Waterways

I remember the first time I saw a mountaintop-removal coal mining site – Kayford Mountain in southern West Virginia. Those images have never left my mind – a barren landscape where there was once lush forest. And right around the destroyed site, homes where people were trying to live despite having the world blown up […]