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Jon Stewart rips into factory farming while talking about the spreading pig virus
Jon Stewart on factory farming: "It’s not some pig in a giant loft playing shuffleboard and inviting over a spider that writes messages!"
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Christie administration stiffed blacks and Latinos on Sandy relief money
New data shows that African Americans were more than twice as likely as whites to be rejected, while Latinos were rejected at 50 percent higher rates.
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Poll finds that Latinos overwhelmingly support climate action
A new survey finds that Latinos are concerned about global warming, and regardless of their income or party affiliation, they want progress.
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OK, GMOs matter — but the noisy fight over them is a distraction
Tom Philpott and Ramez Naam both made sense in their responses to the conclusion of "Panic-free GMOs." Here's what they might have missed.
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Fixing old water and gas pipelines would create far more jobs than building Keystone XL
If job creation is our primary goal, then the Keystone XL pipeline is still not the right move.
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Key enviro law suspended in California under drought emergency
When Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought, he quietly suspended parts of one of the state's landmark laws, the California Environmental Quality Act.
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Can clean energy replace a shuttered nuke plant in California?
Yes, definitely, say the state's cleantech leaders. They're joining enviros to push for more renewables instead of new natural-gas plants.
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California’s drought is kind of staggering when seen from space
Enjoy your sunny weather, Californians! Because we are clearly all gonna die.
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Europe wimps out on climate and clean energy
Sure, it's still better than the rest of the world, but activists and scientists had been hoping for stronger goals on CO2 emissions and renewable energy.
