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Bigmouth strikes again: Morrissey compares meat-eaters to pedophiles
Morrissey, NO! You're making all vegetarians look like wackos!
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Ask Umbra: Why must we “store” renewable energy? Can’t we just use it?
A reader wonders why it’s so hard to work wind and solar power into the grid. Umbra gets a real charge out of the question.
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Dumb cuts and dumber riders: The green take on the new federal budget
The bill is only marginally better on environmental spending than the sequester, and it includes riders that undermine environmental regulation.
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Zombie carbon trading’s latest resurrection
[Because the following is long, it is also available in pdf format at http://www.nohairshirts.com/zomb.pdf ] Even as London carbon trading desks shut down[1] in response to the crumbling European Trading System (ETS) , the zombie concept of carbon trading spreads to China. Because Robin Hahnel’s carbon trading defenses[2] offer the best pro-carbon market arguments to […]
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Leaked Pacific trade treaty draft suggests the planet will pay
The Trans-Pacific Partnership draft puts no teeth behind environmental protections, and could let other countries undermine those in the U.S.
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Major newspaper coverage of climate change plummeted last year
Hear those crickets? That’s the sound of The New York Times and other big U.S. papers covering global warming.
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Watch this fish eat a bird right out of the sky
This is kind of the "man bites dog" of nature.
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This old thing? San Francisco finds new life for dead threads
The city by the Bay rolls out a new line of recycling containers today -- for residents' old clothes.
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Sustainable butcher shop responds to PETA attack in classiest way possible
Yo PETA! Pick on someone your own size. Not a local butcher shop that uses free-range, uncaged, hormone-free animals.
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North Dakota’s top oil regulator is also its top oil promoter
State Democrats see a conflict of interest there. They want the pom-poms to change hands.
