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A tale of two Earth Day heroes: Tim DeChristopher and Sandra Steingraber
Just as DeChristopher is being released from prison, where he served 18 months for disrupting an oil and gas auction, Steingraber is going to jail for protesting fracking.
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Coconuts, from nose to tail
Perennial Plate spent the day with a Sri Lankan family on their coconut plantation, where they showed all the humble coconut has to offer.
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Fracking drives potentially explosive demand for potentially explosive ammonia factories
You know that ammonia plant that blew up in Texas? The U.S. could soon be home to a lot more of those, thanks to low natural gas prices.
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Show us your Earth Day
This year, Earth Day annexes a whole weekend for reflection, fun, and simple acts of change. What will you do to celebrate?
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GOP goes hunting for EPA emails about turducken
… but misses the big picture of the agency's transparency problems.
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Wisconsin left way, way behind in wind energy boom
Wisconsin added just 18 megawatts of wind power capacity in 2012, compared with more than 100 in Michigan and more than 300 in Ohio.
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Silly New York town board drops ban on talking about fracking
The leaders of Sanford, N.Y., barred citizens from speaking about fracking during public meetings -- until a lawsuit scared them into respecting free speech.
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Keystone XL opponents dominate raucous Nebraska hearing
More than 1,000 people converged on a Nebraska town to tell the State Department what they think of plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Liveblog: Cute animals to look at
You could use a break, some kind of good news, something easy to think about -- but you can't tear yourself away long enough to go looking for it. Well, just relax. We will bring you emergency cute.
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Pictures of empty Boston are kind of a punch in the gut
Seeing a major city as a ghost town is incredibly sobering.
