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Who Built Senator-Turned-Dirty Energy Lobbyist Trent Lott? You Did
Far too often in Washington, policy decisions are influenced by big money — wealthy corporations spend millions on lobbying, public relations, and campaign contributions to get their way. Big money helps explain why your cell phone and cable TV bills are so expensive, why small investors are still unprotected from Wall Street abuses, why taxpayers […]
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This is the one graph that’s scarier than climate projections
And no, it's not from the jobs report.
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14 questions for Exxon from an oil spill expert
Exxon’s tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas is highlighting concerns about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, and raising questions about the risks of existing pipelines transporting diluted tar sands crude. In a familiar pattern for the oil industry, Exxon is impeding access to the spill, controlling information about the impacts, and threatening reporters with […]
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Newly discovered species of spider is as big as your face
Have you ever been to Northern Sri Lanka? If you haven't, don't go now, because they have just discovered a new type of tarantula there and the thing is huge.
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Resistance was futile: True confessions of a fallen vegan
We join our heroine in week three of a monthlong experiment in plant-based living. All is not well in Veganville.
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Arkansas town in lockdown after oil spill nightmare
ExxonMobil has instated something like martial law in Mayflower, Ark., taking control of cleanup and wildlife rescue operations while keeping residents, activists, and reporters at bay.
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Withering drought still plaguing half of America
New figures show large swathes of the U.S. remain in the grip of drought, with worse to come.
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American kids still pretty lead-poisoned
More than half a million kids under 5 are suffering from high blood lead levels, according to the CDC.
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Meet Roy Blunt, the senator from Missouri — and Monsanto
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). The "Mo." doesn't stand for Monsanto -- we think.
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New culprit in sea-level rise: Pretty Arctic clouds
Common clouds over the Arctic are being blamed for the much faster-than-expected rate at which Greenland's ice sheets melted last summer.
