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Chicagoans fight the Kochs and their petcoke
The city stopped short of banning piles of petcoke, a tar-sands refining waste. Now activists and officials are trying to get rid of the piles with lawsuits.
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These businesses buy the most clean energy
The EPA’s Top 100 list sheds light on some green energy superstars you might not know about.
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Turning his tiny ghost town green is this octogenarian’s dream
Gerald Freeman is 81, and his heart is failing, but he's still working on making his town of 30-some people self-sustaining.
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Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard star in new ecoterrorism thriller
In the film, the trio plans to blow up a dam, but of course Something Goes Wrong (dun dun dun!).
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Why is Environmental Defense Fund backing Lindsey Graham?
The Republican senator from South Carolina is not what you'd call an environmentalist, but Fred Krupp and EDF's action fund are raising money for him.
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Longtime Vegas water czar warns other cities to brace for climate change
Patricia Mulroy talks about climate adaptation, rancher Cliven Bundy, and the day she thought Las Vegas had run out of water.
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Parking meters in Madrid will charge more for polluting cars
See a black cloud squirt out of someone’s tailpipe in Madrid? Now you can smirk because that sucka will be paying more to park.
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Is Monsanto’s Roundup linked to a deadly kidney disease?
Farm workers on sugar and rice plantations have been hit by a mysterious kidney ailment. Recent research suggests the herbicide glyphosate could be connected to the epidemics.
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The Vampire, the Preacher’s Daughter, and Me: Behind the Scenes of the Years of Living Dangerously
This coming Sunday, May 4, Showtime will air the fourth episode in its Years of Living Dangerously climate series, which includes me and features the Beyond Coal Campaign. As the airing of the “Preacher’s Daughter” episode approaches, I keep thinking back on a particular, beautiful Blue Ridge summer day that I’ll never forget. As the […]
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Watch college kids cover Snoop in “Divest It Like It’s Hot”
Pimps, Rolexes, and weed get updated to Big Oil, activism, and CO2. Bill McKibben even gets a shout-out! Oh, just watch it.
