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Paul Ryan ignores Paul Ryan and Ryan Inc. to push for green jobs
Ryan -- whose family business includes work building coal plants -- advocated for stimulus funding for Wisconsin energy-conservation groups.
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Now you can buy organic air in a can
I’m pretty strongly against most of the ideas in Mel Brooks movies becoming reality, but this one seems like a winner: canned air from cities like New York, Paris, Berlin, and Singapore. Photographer Kirill Rudenko makes them, and they’re available in his Etsy shop for people who are nostalgic for their city’s smells, or who […]
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The hottest rain in world history falls on Needles, Calif.
At 115 degrees, the rain was so hot that most of it evaporated before it hit the ground.
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Greenland’s ice melt is its worst ever — and there’s still a month to go
Melting of the Greenland ice sheet broke the seasonal record on Aug. 8 -- and melting season isn't even over yet.
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Picking Ryan means picking a fight on transportation
Paul Ryan has tried to derail plans for high-speed train lines, and his budget proposal would take a hatchet to transportation and infrastructure spending.
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The baby beluga who inspired ‘Baby Beluga’ has died at the age of 46
Parents and nursery school teachers singing the beloved children’s song “Baby Beluga” by Raffi (a.k.a. Raffi Cavoukian) will have to wipe away a tear today after the final chorus: Kavna, the whale who inspired the song, died of cancer Monday at the Vancouver Aquarium at the age of 46. In other news, you are old. Update: Raffi […]
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Kentucky coal headed to India under new deal
From the Louisville Courier-Journal: Kentucky coal producers have reached an agreement to export 9 million tons of coal annually to India for the next 25 years in a $7 billion deal. Gov. Steve Beshear’s office announced Wednesday that New Jersey-based FJS Energy LLC signed the deal with India’s Abhijeet Group to purchase coal exports from […]
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Shell gets it backward, starts polluting Alaskan water before it drills
The Keystone Kops of oil exploration are up to more wacky hijinks.
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Watch a guy pull off a sting operation to smack down a bike thief
A Portland man who is not named Simon Jackson identified his stolen bike when the thief put it up for sale on Seattle Craigslist. So he wrote an email offering to buy the bike, and traveled to Seattle with backup and cameras. When the thief showed up to sell him his bike back, “Simon” confronted […]
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One down: Planned coal export terminal in Washington is cancelled
Several coal export terminals have been proposed along the West Coast. Now there's one less for activists to fight.
