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Will 2013 be the year of ag-gag bills?
Animal advocates expect Big Ag will fight even harder against whistleblowers this year.
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Colbert skewers the climate fatalism caucus
The Colbert Report had a wicked segment on climate change this week. Watch it.
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Right-wingers’ dream town is a new urbanist paradise, but full of guns
Sustainable planned communities are not just the territory of the political left.
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More vignettes from North Frackota, where rents are sky-high and adultery is illegal
North Dakota -- fastest-growing state in the nation thanks to a fracking boom -- offers lots of traffic and crowds and not much fun.
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How coal is keeping its firm grip on miners and elected officials
A lawsuit against a whistleblower, huge contributions to Congress: The coal industry spends big, but it still won't spend to clean up its act.
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The unsophisticated reply to the ‘sophisticated objection’
The "sophisticated objection" to U.S. climate action is that it is pointless without help from China, India, and other major emitters. The unsophisticated reply? Tough shit. Decency dictates that we try.
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Your cat is a massive environmental hazard
Cats are one of the major threats to U.S. wildlife, killing up to 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion mammals every year.
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This is probably the freakiest fungus we’ve ever seen
There's no real mystery why this thing is called a "bleeding tooth fungus." It is ... alarming.
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to ride off into the sunset
At first greens and urbanists were skeptical of the Republican from Illinois, but now they're sorry to see him go.
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Look out! These cute penguins are cold-blooded killers
Japanese researchers put cameras on the backs of adorable Adelie penguins and sent them out to hunt. Generally, if you are interested in continuing to think an omnivorous animal is cute, you don't want to do this.
