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Testify in court: Environmental crusader Rev. Billy might face prison

Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping could spend a year in the slammer for protesting Chase Bank's shady climate practices. Is the pen mightier than the Word? We talk to the green activist to find out.

The six U.S. nuclear power plants most likely to shut down

Falling electricity prices and rising distaste for nuclear power are bad news for the nation's reactor operators, says Morningstar.

Heavily polluted Beijing now has 8-year-old lung cancer patient

But don't worry -- health officials say she probably just smokes too much.

Rescued turtle can walk again thanks to a LEGO wheel prosthesis

Schildi the turtle lost a leg, but doctors rebuilt him, better, stronger, and ... probably much less fast but really, he's a turtle, how fast was he going to be.

Oil refineries in Louisiana have accidents almost every day

Well, OK, not every single day. Just six days a week on average. Actually, to be specific, 6.3 days a week.

Overwhelming Support for Climate Action at EPA Listening Sessions

Last week, I rode a bus from Indianapolis to Chicago for one of eleven listening sessions on the carbon pollution standards being proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. When we arrived in Chicago, I took to the stage to help rally the 500-person crowd (video here), calling on the EPA to put forward strong, just […]

No one had seen this funky-looking endangered ox in the wild for 15 years

The saola, a "long-horned ox" that looks, basically, like a deer that got vanilla ice cream all over its face, is really, really good at not being seen by humans.

Instant bike lanes snap together like toy railroad tracks

City designers can buy a set, lay down a bike lane, and test it out.

6 ways Bill de Blasio can make New York’s streets more people-friendly

Creating more pedestrian plazas, enforcing traffic laws, getting trucks off city streets -- there's lots the new mayor could do to make New York City safer for walkers and cyclists.

Fasting for the Philippines

The Climate Action Network International (http://www.climatenetwork.org/press-release/civil-society-announce-they-will-fast-solidarity-philippines-yeb-sano) has organized an international fast in solidarity with Yeb Sano, the lead climate negotiator for the Philippines at the 19th United Nations Climate Conference in Warsaw, Poland. He said in a speech there Monday, on the first day of the conference, that: “In solidarity with my countrymen who are […]