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ALEC calls for penalties on “free rider” solar-panel owners
The conservative group's anti-green agenda includes efforts to penalize people who install their own solar panels.
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Which Hollywood-style climate disasters will strike in your lifetime?
Here's a list of some of the most dreaded abrupt changes, and the probability that they'll happen anytime soon.
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The spying game: Companies monitor activists because they can
No one knows just how much surveillance of environmentalists takes place in the U.S. We do know there's not much penalty for getting caught.
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Big corporations are getting ready for carbon taxes, even if we’re not
You know it's bad when oil companies see the light on carbon taxing before the tax-collectors do.
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Low wages and cheap food: Separated at birth
The one-day strike by fast food workers reminds us that inexpensive food carries a high social price tag.
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Triple threat: Obama orders federal agencies to boost clean energy use threefold
As part of his climate plan, the president cleans up his own house by calling on the federal government to use more renewable electricity.
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“Let them eat coal”: Why cheap, dirty fuels aren’t a meal ticket for developing countries
Bjorn Lomborg thinks Africa just needs more fossil fuels. Luckily, Africans already know what's best for them.
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Will Your Tax Dollars Fund a Highway that’s a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in Disguise?
Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal mining is already a shocking, devastating, and destructive practice on its own – but what happens when you add in coal companies making deals with […]
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We can’t stop watching these emus freak out about a ball
Ball. Ball? Ball! Ball? OMG ball!
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Britain is exporting $73 million worth of pig semen to China
Not great news for the planet or for the pigs.
