Latest Articles
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USDA dumps millions in lunch money on local food
Could the long national nightmare of gross school lunches be drawing to a close? Not yet, but this is a good start.
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Here’s why the Freedom Tower isn’t the greenest building in America after all
Under pressure to get a publishing giant into the iconic tower, the site's developers may have sacrificed a core part of its green plans.
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Sea swallows the last house in doomed Virginia beach town
In the 1950s, developers pitched Cedar Island, Va., as the next great East Coast beach resort. That dream is now completely gone.
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Updates on things I’m obsessed with
The latest on: the Supreme Court and an exciting FERC order; Peabody Energy and a misguided constitutional scholar; and coal export terminals and why we don’t need more.
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Don’t blame climate change for California’s terrible drought
But rising temperatures might be making it worse.
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The world is actually making some progress on fighting climate change
We're on track for 3 degrees C of warming, says a new report. That's still enough to cause big problems, but it's less of a rise than we'd been fearing.
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Obama disses Keystone XL on the Colbert Report
We need to make sure Keystone XL doesn't contribute to disastrous warming of the planet, President Obama said.
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A green utopia deep in Mississippi? This guy has a game plan
Kali Akuno wants to build an eco-village in the middle of Jackson, Miss. And so far, he's getting all the cooperation he needs.
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Lousiana has a crazy plan to save its sinking coastline
The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50-year, $50 billion plan based on science that’s never been tested and money it doesn’t have. What could go wrong?
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Coal giant exploits the global poor to save its own hide
Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, is trying to pitch itself as a friend of poor people. Oh, the ironies abound.
