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This Mardi Gras, don’t bead off in public
After seeing an oil spill lay waste to the Louisiana coastline, longtime resident Holly Groh hopes to make New Orleans' epic cavalcade of debauchery a bit greener -- and she's starting with the beads.
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Frackers set their sights on the Golden State
California's Monterey Shale could contain twice as much oil as all of Saudi Arabia, but it won't be easy to get out of the ground.
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Walmart’s big push into groceries is not good for small farmers
Walmart now dominates the U.S. grocery sector, selling more food than the three biggest grocery chains combined.
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New York governor wants to return Sandy-damaged neighborhoods to nature
It turns out that buying up damaged houses and converting the land into wetlands or parks would be rather expensive.
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San Francisco plans expensive ‘managed retreat’ from rising seas
It's an expensive plan, but rerouting a highway before it's flooded could end up saving a boatload of money in the end.
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Alaska senator offers a fresh, new energy policy calling for more drilling in Alaska
And more drilling everywhere else too. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's patrons in the oil industry will golf-clap for this one.
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GOP could reach out to cities, if not for the elephant in the room
Harvard economist Ed Glaeser argues that Republicans should mend fences with American cities -- and that city folk are natural GOPers. Dude clearly doesn’t know many city folk.
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How the shale boom came to North Dakota — and how it’s spreading west
There's lots of shale oil in Colorado and California too, but residents of those states are more suspicious of fracking.
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Dolphins have been acting really nice lately and we’re scared
Perhaps we've been too hasty in trashing dolphins. Or perhaps something weird is going on.
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We kinda never want to get on the subway again after reading this horror story
D.C.'s WMATA did when it left hundreds of passengers stranded underground for hours after a track fire stopped service.
