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Cash for Clunkers program drove right into a brick wall of waste
The program took 690,000 old cars off the roads -- and sent them to landfills instead of to auto-parts recyclers.
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Fiscal-cliff deal ups tax benefit for transit riders
Congress almost drove the crazy train off the fiscal cliff, but turned away just in time, yielding tax benefits for mass-transit riders.
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Record-high average gas prices in 2012 are almost certainly great news for oil companies
Gas prices in the U.S. haven't gone down even though domestic drilling has gone up. Can Republicans explain that?
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More and more hospitals are telling McDonald’s to take a hike
There’s a great deal of evidence that McDonald’s food, eaten on a regular basis, is not exactly beneficial to health.
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A new savior for California state parks?
An ex-Marine general is taking charge of the troubled state park system, and he ain't taking any guff.
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This graph will make you think twice about eating organic
If you're bad at science.
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2012 was the hottest year in history in New York, D.C., Louisville, Philadelphia …
And on and on and on ...
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Avis buys Zipcar, delighting investors and unnerving customers
A deal to acquire the car-sharing company might make more Zipcars available on the weekends. It might also kill the business altogether.
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This is what your city would look like without light pollution
This photography series shows what the night sky might look like after humans and their light pollution are wiped off the planet.
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People will go out of their way to hit turtles with cars, because people are jerks
A university student found that drivers will go out of their way to hit a fake box turtle. Conclusion: People are mean, being a turtle sucks.
