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Rep. Cliff Stearns is against energy subsidies that aren't to oil companies
Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), the Republicans' point man on Solyndra, says he's against subsidies to energy industries. What he meant was clean energy industries.
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Motor City mulch [VIDEO]
A Detroit couple leading the urban-ag uprising there explain how city folks have farmed for years, but "then, the hipsters came along."
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International family planning saves lives. So why is the GOP cutting it?
The GOP is committed to rolling back women's health rights that have made families and societies stronger across the developing world.
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Obama rips GOP defeatism: ‘I’m not going to surrender to other countries’
Republicans are using Solyndra as an excuse to dismiss clean energy manufacturing in the U.S. Obama doesn't give up so easily.
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Is Walmart allergic to Pollan?
Food guru Michael Pollan goes toe-to-toe with a Walmart VP to ask: Can the processed food giant ever be a friend to food reformers?
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David Roberts talks green jobs with EnergyNow! [VIDEO]
David Roberts sat down with the folks at EnergyNow! to discuss "green jobs." Here's the video.
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Texas aims to pollute the nation
It almost seems like Texas is proud of the fact that it has some of the worst air quality in the nation. The state recently filed yet another lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — bringing the total number of recent lawsuits to more than 10 — claiming in part that Texas should not […]
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Car-crushing mayor wins an Ig Nobel prize
Remember Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, who ran over a Mercedes parked in a bike lane USING A TANK? He's just won an Ig Nobel prize, the coveted award for research (or, you know, a mayoral publicity stunt) that first makes people laugh, then makes them think.
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Pipeline? We don't need no stinkin' pipeline
Arguments against the tar-sands pipeline focus on the environmental dangers it poses. The more fundamental question is: do we really need that oil?
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WSJ: We can't trust climate science because neutrinos might go faster than light
Someone at the Wall Street Journal read a press release about a scientific finding! And then decided that since people are evidently still discovering things, climate science is probably going to turn out bullshit.
Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might—repeat, might—travel faster than the speed of light. If serious scientists can question Einstein's theory of relativity, then there must be room for debate about the workings and complexities of the Earth's atmosphere.
