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Peter Gleick did not forge Heartland documents
Before the Heartland Institute decided to alienate even right-wing denialists with their OTT billboard campaign, they were already in kind of hot water — some of their internal documents had come to light, and the light was not flattering. Climate scientist Peter Gleick admitted to obtaining the documents under false pretenses, which absolutely scandalized Heartland, […]
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Let’s end polluter welfare
We can't afford to give away more than $110 billion to the oil, gas, and coal industries over the next decade. That's why I've introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act.
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Does organic food make you a jerk?
New research says organic food makes you rude and selfish. We investigate this "provocative" study.
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U.S. military kicks more ass by using less fossil-fuel energy
To understand the promise of renewable energy for the U.S. military, start as far from D.C. as possible -- say, with a company of Marines in Afghanistan.
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Heartland Institute going broke due to dickish billboard campaign
After a year fraught with hardship, the climate-denialist Heartland Institute is being rapidly abandoned by its friends and supporters, doomed to wind up friendless and alone, wandering the streets clad only in rags, hawking matches to indifferent passers-by. It would be straight-up Dickensian if they weren’t such jerks. But most of this ill will is […]
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Tree poachers steal 800-year-old red cedar
A decade ago, British Columbia had 40 full-time park rangers who monitored 1,000 parks. Today, it only has 10. And they don’t often make it out to faraway parks like the Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park, which is on the southern end of Vancouver Island. With no one around regularly, it must have been easy for poachers […]
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Looking for $1 trillion to spend well? Eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.
You know how sometimes you decide to Google something totally random that’s on your mind and see what comes up? Well, the other day “1 trillion dollars” was on my mind, and I decided to Google it. Well, turns out you get some interesting results when you Google “1 trillion dollars”, if you can look […]
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Wisconsin hospital is powered by beer and cheese
Gundersen Lutheran Hospital, in La Crosse, Wis., aims to be energy independent by 2014. Hospitals use a ton of energy, so that’s a tough goal to meet. But Gundersen is getting there by piggybacking on Wisconsin’s best-known industries: beer and cheese. Beer and cheese, while delicious, both slough off a lot of gas while they’re […]
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Critical List: Eating organic makes people judgey; U.S. selling drones to Iraq to protect oil
Eating organic food makes people more judgmental about others’ actions and less altruistic, according to a totally bogus study. The U.S. is selling drones to Iraq to protect oil exports. White-tailed deer are eating so many leaves, they’re keeping migratory birds from being able to build their nests.
