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Against the grain: Fracking companies mine rural Wisconsin for sand
Fracking companies are storming rural Wisconsin, bringing money and misery with them. But they're not after natural gas: They're mining sand crucial to drilling operations everywhere. Inside the environmental nightmare you know nothing about.
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Politicians, advocates make an 11th-hour push for a better farm bill
Do you have something to say about the $85 billion bill that will shape the nation's food and farming landscape for the next five years? Congress is digging down into the details, but it's not too late to chime in.
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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 […]
