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This giant hamster wheel is cleaning up Baltimore Harbor
You still shouldn't just chuck your old boots into the harbor, but it’s pretty cool, right?
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San Francisco considers banning exports of coal and petcoke
The city is exploring a proposal to keep "hazardous fossil fuel materials" away from its ports.
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If you keep illegally dumping fracking waste, Big Oil, we’ll keep videotaping you
We’ve got camera phones, and we aren’t afraid to use them. And by "we" I mean mom and organic farmer Amber Lyssy.
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Get ready for a whole new kind of climate change lawsuit
An insurance company is suing Chicago-area municipalities for not doing enough to prepare for climate change–juiced flooding.
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Climate change is turning sea turtles female
At incubation temperatures higher than 84 degrees F, fewer and fewer males are born. They need a box fan or more umbrella drinks, stat!
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Is the Obama admin leaning toward requiring frackers to disclose the chemicals they use?
In an interview with Grist, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz suggested that frackers might need to be more forthcoming about their chemical cocktails.
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North Carolina GOP pushes unprecedented bill to jail anyone who discloses fracking chemicals
The new bill proposes one of the strictest pro-fracking rules to date.
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14 pointers toward a better food system: Connecting the (local, sustainable) dots
If we want to scale up the local food movement's ideas, here's a list of principles that could make all the difference.
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From math-lover to talent discoverer: Make Grist’s birthday count
Andrew Simon's love of numbers lost out to a love of words. Now, he's the director of Grist’s fellowship program. Will you pitch in to fund our future?
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A David and Goliath Fight to Tap World Class Solar
“It’s the most inspirational work that I’m doing…this is an inspirational and aspirational effort…at the heart of it is love of place and energy democracy.” Mariel Nanasi and the citizens of Santa Fe, NM, are exploring the economic and environmental benefits of more local and locally-controlled energy production. Is their city ready to take the […]
