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Feds, Arkansas sue Exxon over tar-sands spill
The Justice Department and the state of Arkansas want to make sure ExxonMobil pays up and cleans up after its pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark.
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Adorable comic strip asks, “What if climate change were just some douchebag living in your house?”
Climate change: the worst houseguest ever.
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Pipeline spills oil waste on more than 100 acres in Alberta
A five-year-old pipeline sprung a leak and spilled 2.5 million gallons of oily water, wiping out a wide swath of trees and vegetation -- and raising alarms yet again about pipeline safety.
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The Prozac in your pee makes fish anxious and aggressive
Fish are getting antisocial and even homicidal because antidepressants in our pee -- and improperly treated waste water -- are interfering with their brain development.
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Maine Town Tells Coal Plant to Clean Up Its Act
Every week it seems like yet another small town gets fed up with the coal industry and demands action. This week’s fantastic example comes from Eliot, Maine, where Tuesday night residents voted 906 to 560 to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate dangerous sulfur dioxide pollution coming from the Schiller Station coal plant just […]
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Scary-funny parody site Kochify the News simulates a Koch-owned media
Ever wonder what a Koch-owned L.A. Times would look like? Hint: Jerry Brown is renamed Governor Moonbeam.
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This is what your supermarket would look like if all the bees died off
Whole Foods did a little experiment and pulled all produce pollinated by bees. The resulting photo is crazy.
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Some thoughts on “Pandora’s Promise” and the nuclear debate
The new documentary "Pandora's Promise" has revived the debate over nuclear power, which is ... oh, God, do we have to?
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With bicycling on the rise, motorists get a new round of driver’s ed
Bike lanes help, but what cities really need is drivers who know how to behave when there are two-wheelers on the roads.
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Colorado city wants more than just a ban on fracking
Residents of Lafayette, Colo., are pushing a ballot initiative would prohibit all new oil and gas extraction and establish a far-reaching community bill of rights.
