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Health care and sustainability, part deux: More …
Reax to the Supreme Court's ruling from Van Jones, Alex Steffen, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, and Gary Hirshberg.
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Coal plants: Filthy, dangerous, and now a terrible investment!
Ignore the industry's wheezing protestations: The days of affordable coal-fired power are over, and a new Sierra Club report shows how, social and environmental damages aside, new coal plants are just lousy investments.
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‘Stand back, I’m going to try science’: Inside the brain of ExxonMobil’s CEO
Rex Tillerson says his company's all about science, activists are "manufacturers of fear," people are ignorant, climate change is real, but don't worry because we'll adapt. What?
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Crazy living rock is one of the weirdest creatures we’ve ever seen
The fact that this sea creature looks exactly like a rock with guts is not even the weirdest thing about it.
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Featured Friend: Regina A.
Each month, we showcase one of our beloved Friends with Benefits — folks who have donated to support our work. Want to take your relationship with Grist to the next level? Just donate any amount to join the fun. Regina A. “Over the past few months I’ve developed quite the obsession with Grist because of the great […]
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Health care and sustainability: Experts weigh in on ruling
Terry Tempest Williams, Raj Patel, Richard Heinberg, James Howard Kunstler, and Gary Cohen on the Supreme Court's landmark decision.
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A male birth control dudes might actually use
You know what doesn’t do a lot to help reduce unwanted births? Putting women in sole charge of contraception, then making it nigh-impossible for them to exercise any reproductive freedom. We could improve sex ed, affordability of birth control pills, and access to abortion — but as long as there are Republicans around, we might […]
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Training wheels for your Hummer? GM stamps brand names on Japanese bikes
In Japan, Cadillacs, Chevrolets, and Hummers are hot hot hot. Especially the ones with only two wheels.
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Exxon boss cries over natural gas glut, tells us we’re climate crybabies
Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil's CEO, is bemoaning how hard it is to make money despite its massive oil profits -- and telling us all to chill out about the climate.
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Crying Over Colorado
Reading the piece below by Julia Olson made me cry. One of the big memories of my childhood is a one-month vacation trip my family took when I was 14 years old, driving from Lancaster, Pa. to Colorado and staying in Manitou Springs, just outside of Colorado Springs, for two weeks. Now, Manitou Springs is […]
