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Guitar Antihero 3: How Congress fell for Gibson's bunk crusade
Asian logging interests have become the latest cause célèbre for the Tea Party. Thanks to Gibson Guitar, Republicans seem eager to jump on board.
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Wind turbines: annoying, sure, but probably not actually unhealthy
There's no denying that wind turbines make noise. But claims that they cause actual health problems are, at best, conflated, says a new analysis.
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Will my baby be the 7 billionth?
Born in the U.S., my child will be one of the most voracious consumers on the planet. But to apologize for this seems to signal a loss of hope.
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Public disservice: Pipeline hearings run by Keystone XL contractor
State Department public hearings on federal approval for the proposed Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline are being run by a contractor for TransCanada.
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Road hogs: Minneapolis cyclists don’t need to share
Last year, the City of Lakes stole the title of most bike friendly burg in America -- and rightly so. You have to ride it to believe it.
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Valdez redux? Scientists sound alarm over key Gulf fish species
Could one of the Gulf of Mexico’s most abundant fish face the same fate as Prince William Sound’s crashed herring population? A new study [PDF] by a team of researchers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences raises alarming questions about the lingering effects of the BP oil spill on Gulf killifish. The […]
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No, the EPA is NOT expanding 1,350 percent
Apparently the right-wing blogosphere, not to mention some "news" organizations, will believe just about anything about the EPA. The most recent ridiculous rumor is that the agency, which currently employs 17,000 people, is on track to hire "230,000 new bureaucrats" -- at taxpayer expense, natch -- while bumping its $8.7 billion budget up to $21 billion.
How did this happen? Basically, the world's dumbest game of telephone.
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In Solyndra's wake, polling finds support for clean energy remains strong
Tea Party conservatives have tried to use the Solyndra faux-scandal to tarnish the image of clean energy, but new polling finds that it isn't working.
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'Peak Coal' comes to Appalachia
By 2015, coal production in Appalachia will be half what it was in 2008. Some coal industry advocates argue that such a drop is due to increased regulation by the Obama administration (go figure). But geologists and others who work in the industry say it's actually the result of a much more basic fact: Appalachia is running out of coal.
