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Election Year Surprise from Enviro Groups
“In the speech, you referenced that in the past year you had put forward an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy, yet noted that we cannot just drill our way out of our energy and climate challenge. We believe that continued reliance on an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy would be fundamentally at odds […]
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Nuts for Nutella? Learn how to make your own
Learn how to make Nutella without all the international shipping and processing.
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Media for Sale: Coal Lobby Buys Politico, Real Clear Politics Events
Last week, the political news website Real Clear Politics hosted a Washington DC event (video) targeted at an elite media and policy audience. Held at the gleaming Newseum, site of many such events, it was entitled, “U.S. Energy Policy: The Road Ahead,” and appeared to be a genuine policy discussion. It was, in fact, an infomercial. […]
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How safe is our drinking water?
Poisoning the enemy is a long-standing military strategy.
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Will the U.K. follow the U.S. on a fracking binge?
British Prime Minister David Cameron seems desperate to mimic America's natural-gas boom, but plenty of hurdles stand in his way.
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We may have to suck up CO2 to prevent planet from frying, U.N. says
A leaked draft of an IPCC report says we might need mass-scale geoengineering to fend off the worst of climate change. Al Gore says that's "insane."
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Congress moves to restore ban on horse slaughter
Slaughterhouses that want to sell horsemeat might fight back by filing a claim under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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De Blasio has a new plan to protect pedestrians on NYC streets
New York's new mayor pledges to tackle a long-ignored problem: traffic and speeding violations that threaten walkers and cyclists.
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Global warming denial hits a six-year high
The latest data is out on the prevalence of global warming denial among the U.S. public. And it isn't pretty.
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California is now really, truly, officially screwed by drought
Gov. Jerry Brown finally declared an emergency, in the midst of the worst drought in California's history.