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Louisiana pipeline fire, now extinguished, sickened residents
One out of every 10 residents of a nearby town say pollution from the pipeline accident and the resulting days-long fire made them sick.
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BP can bid on new Gulf drilling leases, but will it be allowed to drill?
After being barred from bidding on Gulf of Mexico drilling leases as punishment for the Deepwater Horizon spill, BP is now back in action -- kind of.
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You eat less if you know exactly how many miles you’ll have to walk to burn it off
A recent study shows little changes to menus can make a big difference to health outcomes.
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Obama: Let’s fund clean car technology with oil and gas royalties
The president wants to spend $2 billion over the next decade to research ways to power cars without oil, funded by offshore drilling royalties.
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Awesome 17-year-old geek wins $100,000 for her bedroom biofuel lab
Sara Volz's experiments with algae could create cheaper, more efficient biofuel.
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‘Yogurt for men’ comes with its own abs
Why should women be the only ones who get to sit around listing off stereotypes about their gender while eating oversweetened fat-free yogurt glop?
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This guy built an authentic passenger rail car in his basement
To make this subterranean transit-geek wonderland, self-described "train-obsessed nutcase" Jason Shron went in with a friend on a decades-old train car that was slated to be scrapped.
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10 reasons why fracking for dirty oil in California is a stupid idea
The oil industry is eyeing California’s tight oil reserves, and even Gov. Jerry Brown thinks it might make sense to frack them. Here are 10 reasons not to.
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Ask Umbra: On holey jeans, holey socks, and dyeing clothes
Readers ask about that holiest of all topics: their clothes. Umbra sends some smoke signals up the Grist chimney.
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Obama: “All of the above,” again and again
The day after the November 6 election I wrote about Obama’s electoral victory over Romney, which I was glad for. My column was about the need for the climate movement to “make it impossible for the Obama administration not to speak up and take action on the rapidly deepening and most important issue human civilization […]
