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It’s not all about CO2: A plan to help reduce short-term climate pollutants
A new bill aims to reduce "super pollutants," which warm the atmosphere while also killing people and plants. It's a great idea; too bad we don't have a great Congress.
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A scientist made steel without releasing any greenhouse gases
He used moon soil to do it, too.
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Appalachian Families Denied Clean Water Travel to Washington to Demand Action
Appalachian activists gather outside the Washington, D.C., Environmental Protection Agency office to demand an end to mountaintop removal coal mining. Elaine Tanner and her partner Jimmy Hall have both experienced, up close and personal, the destruction caused by mountaintop removal coal mining. The Kentucky natives are fighting a coal company they claim poisoned their well […]
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Plants have a secret underground communication network
When aphids attack one plant in the network, underground fungus networks let the other plants know.
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Tesla sedan gets best Consumer Reports auto review of all time
Tesla's all-electric Model S scored 99 out of 100 from Consumer Reports. Meanwhile, Nissan's all-electric Leaf got a top safety rating from another group.
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Subaru thinks you smell because you take the subway
And the car company is willing to tell you so. While you're on the subway.
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The most controversial chart in history, explained
Climate deniers threw all their might at disproving the famous "hockey stick" climate change graph. Here's why they failed.
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Judge says EPA’s lax guidelines on dispersants can stand
Environmentalists sued EPA to force it to regulate oil dispersants more aggressively. With help from Big Oil attorneys, EPA won on a technicality.
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Strawberry fields, not forever: Workers ditch farm after it punishes them for fleeing wildfire
A farm fired workers for seeking shelter from wildfire smoke. After a media outcry, they were offered their jobs back, but most said "hell no."
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California town of Sebastopol will require solar panels on all new homes
That makes two California cities that have decided in the last two months to mandate the installation of solar systems on new buildings.
