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Just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions
Chevron, Exxon, and BP are among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age.
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Washington’s GMO labeling flop, two weeks later: What it means
The food industry unleashed a flurry of anti-labeling ads, but they only worked because support for labeling is broad but shallow.
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Warsaw warning: World on pace to miss already awful climate targets
Since putting some emissions reduction pledges (don’t call them commitments!) down on paper after the climate conference in Copenhagen, countries have had nearly four years to start building policies to meet the goals. Would it surprise you terribly to find out that those pledges — paltry though they were — aren’t being met? This morning, […]
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Reading, writing, & arsenic: New Orleans school planned atop toxic dump
Louisiana continues a long tradition of planting schools -- particularly those serving poor, black kids -- on contaminated brownfields.
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This fancypants sofa bench is actually a rainwater collector
It slurps up rain and traps the water inside.
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This chicken coop used to be a 1970s police car
It's a clever bit of upcycling, and a clever bit of punning as well.
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This Pacific island has so much plastic pollution it might become a Superfund site
Part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge is being studied for potential Superfund designation, the first time plastic pollution has prompted such consideration.
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Meat-based diets linked with type 2 diabetes; vegans everywhere get smug
Guess we won't be having that bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich today after all.
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This video of a semitruck’s blind spot will blow your MIND
Sorry for the Upworthy headline, but seriously.
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Illinois College Students Vote Six to One in Favor of Divestment
Mary Anne Hitt: Americans continue to demand clean energy from the local to national level, and here’s yet another amazing example of quick, successful organizing by college students in Illinois. I’ll let my colleagues tell you all the wonderful details: Illinois College Students Vote Six to One in Favor of Divestment Co-written by Anastasia Schemkes […]
