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A tragicomic tale of coal industry incompetence and disregard
Watch, as the operators of the Reid Gardner coal plant in Nevada are asked about coal ash and reveal astonishing levels of both insensitivity and incompetence.
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Thinking outside the parks: Green space spreads in the Big Apple
When you think of parks in New York City, you probably imagine the big dogs -- Central Park, or Prospect. But the green is seeping through the city, and we’d be wise to take notice.
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GOP tries to block black-lung protections. Big Tobacco would be proud
As always, Big Tobacco leads the way in developing innovative arguments about why their profits are more important than the people they kill.
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A dry run from hell: Drought hits the smallest farms the hardest
This drought will give small Midwestern farmers lots of practice coping with climate change -- if it doesn’t bankrupt them first.
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Here’s what lightning looks like in 3-D
From our vantage point on the ground, lightning usually looks like a forked line from the sky to the ground. But it's way more complicated and cool, as this model of lightning from the D.C. derecho shows.
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More bad drought news: Drought makes hotter temperatures more likely
As we prepare to switch over to reporting on nothing but drought news, yet another story about how the bad drought is making things worse.
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Lobbyists spent $173.5 million trying to shape the 2008 farm bill
Food and Water Watch crunched the numbers, revealing both the scale and breakdown of the massive effort to pass the 2008 legislation.
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Spectacular image of the Southern Lights from space
If you need an excuse to love the planet, just hang around NASA’s site for a while — the images they post make it kind of hard not to feel awed about the Earth.
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Chevron announces plans to begin drilling in a free Iraq
Somewhere, George W. Bush breathes a sigh of relief.
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Why do ‘experts’ always lowball clean-energy projections?
Renewable energy evolves quickly and is hard to quantify, but experts' predictions last decade were way off. It makes you wonder what today's projections will look like in 2020.
