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Supreme Court: One State’s Coal Pollution Not Allowed to Make Another State’s Families Sick
In a huge victory for public health, today the Supreme Court issued its opinion in a case considering the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution rule, which is designed to protect Americans from dangerous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. In a 6-2 decision, the court delivered a resounding victory for clean air and public health, affirming […]
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Factory farms get even grosser
As if CAFOs weren't disgusting enough already, now they're spraying manure out of sprinkler systems, and it's contaminating neighbors' homes.
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Duke Energy says it would be too hard to actually fix its coal-ash problem
The company whines that cleaning up all of its coal-ash ponds in North Carolina would take 30 years. Activists don't buy it.
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How farm to market-based solutions can take organic to the next level
Kellee James wants her company, Mercaris, to become the Bloomberg of organic crop prices.
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Las Vegas burning: Lessons in resilience from the nation’s driest big city
Thus begins a month(ish)-long series about Sin City, how it has survived in a brutal, unwelcoming climate, and what that says about our future.
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Urban farms won’t feed us, but they just might teach us
It's clear that the craze for the urban farm is no answer to feeding our teeming cities. Its value lies instead in how it can change us.
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One frack mind: How a determined New Yorker won the green Nobel
Helen Slottje found a legal strategy for upstate New York towns to block fracking through zoning. Now she's ready to take it national.
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Could garbage fuel help green the airline industry?
If British Airways’ plan pans out, air travelers could be singing, “I’m leavin’ on a trash-fueled jet plane.”
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Super cute Japanese posters encourage proper transit etiquette
Every April, Tokyo gets a new transit safety mascot. This year, it’s an adorable lion reminding you not to hold up the subway with your cake habit.
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Why not add powdered crickets to your protein shake?
There are already bugs in our processed food. Vegans should embrace insects as a rich source of protein, says one entomophagist.
