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For a buck or two a day, you can be entitled to financial compensation if smog messes up your vacation.

Holly Richmond Culture

A reader frets about nasties that cause endocrine disruption and liver toxicity. Umbra tells her to keep her coil.

Ask Umbra® Culture

The tanker spills of yore were bad enough. But the rules that covered them don't apply to the tar-sands oil we're now hauling cross-continent.

Heather Smith Climate & Energy

Green shareholder activists have successfully pressured Exxon to publicly report on how much climate regulations might hurt its business.

Ben Adler Technology

Bonus: find out what he thinks about Grist readers (#79)!

Brad Johnson Accountability

You can make alcoholic ginger beer with everyday kitchen staples. Cheers to you!

Catherine Lamb Culture

Here's what you should know to understand a long-unfolding story about genetically modified Bt crops and the worms who love them.

Nathanael Johnson Food

More than $5 billion has been invested in renewable energy projects in the state since 2010.

John Upton Food

Luckily this little buddy ran into friendly humans when he got himself trapped in a wooden gate in a Canadian suburb.

Jess Zimmerman Culture

The Koch bros' plant is just one of a gaggle of polluters strangling Port Arthur, a city also beset by ghastly levels of lung disease and cancer.

Brentin Mock Cities

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