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Cheers! Grist has a new class of fellows
Remember back in October when we told you we were looking for a few good fellows? Well, we found ‘em. And we couldn’t be more jazzed.
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Uber complicated: Rideshare legal battles heat up across the country
Cities are debating how to regulate ridesharing companies like Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar. Here's a map tracking the legal skirmishes across the country.
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Bummer for anti-Keystoners: Report finds no conflict of interest, despite obvious conflicts of interest
ERM, which wrote the environmental study on Keystone XL, did dodgy and deceptive stuff, but none of it amounted to serious rule breaking, says the State Department's inspector general.
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Feds will help honeybees find food
The government will spend $3 million to encourage farmers and ranchers to provide nutritious honeybee nectar in the Midwest.
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This new tool lets you watch trees disappear in near real time
New software and satellite images can track tree loss month-to-month -- which is damn near real time in logging terms.
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Fight the funk: This woman’s fight against garbage fumes became a national crusade
Vernice Miller-Travis connected the dots between the nasty haze that hung over West Harlem and the neighborhood's sky-high asthma rates. She is one of the unsung heroes of the environmental justice movement.
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New Jersey wants to dump toxic waste on a site that was just cleaned up
Why? Possibly because it'll be profitable for people with political connections.
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Marcellus energy development could pave over an area bigger than Delaware
A new study predicts 106,004 new gas wells will be drilled in the Marcellus region.
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Recycled plastic doodads make instant divided bike lanes
We were going to like the Armadillo even if it didn't have a very practical purpose.
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EPA’s new pesticide rules: Will they make a difference?
Farmworker training and rules for underage labor are valuable, but it's going to take more to change our chemical-laced system.
