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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.
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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 […]
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Oil barge crashes into gas pipeline in Louisiana, triggers big fire
A tugboat captain was among those injured after an oil barge crashed into a natural-gas pipeline south of New Orleans.
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A new board game where kids rescue polar bears from real, melting ice
Meltdown comes with a special ice cube tray, so you can rescue polar bear game pieces from a tabletop-sized melting Arctic.
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Could Waxman’s new bill offer fresh hope for a carbon tax?
Waxman and several other Democratic lawmakers are grinding out bills that would make polluters pay for their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Great green north: Climate change curtails Canadian winters
NASA scientists say Canadian winters are warming up -- a change that's "like Winnipeg, Manitoba, moving to Minneapolis-Saint Paul in only 30 years."
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One day these robotic bees might have to replace real ones
Look, they can fly!
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Interfaith CD Action at White House March 21
Palms, Matzah, Our Planet, and the White House: A Religious Call to Civil Disobedience at 12:00 Noon, Thursday, March 21st At noon on March 21st, religiously and spiritually rooted Americans of all traditions will gather at the White House for a moral act of loving nonviolent civil disobedience. This action, organized by the Interfaith Moral […]
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Is ‘Twilight’ influencing our environmental imagination?
Wonder what’s shaping our warped relationship with the natural world? Look no further than popular literature, says ecocritic George Handley.
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Community-Owned Transmission?
The enormous growth in local renewable energy is decentralizing the electricity system, often supplanting energy from centralized power plants. But not all renewable energy is built locally, even in a country like Germany with massive local ownership of its renewable energy systems. The Germans are undergoing significant upgrades to their electricity grid as they push […]
