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What do banana peels and coal ash have in common?
Americans want strong protections against toxic coal ash — that’s why they submitted more than 450,000 public comments during the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) process to put long-overdue protections in place. Unfortunately, Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) recently introduced the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2011 (H.R. 2273), which would handcuff EPA’s ability to […]
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Coal ash regulations would create 28,000 jobs
Republicans have been arguing that environmental regulations kill jobs. But research keeps showing that it's just not true. An independent analysis of the coal ash industry, for instance, reveals that stricter safety regulations would create 28,000 jobs overall.
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America uses more corn for fuel than for food
In America, most corn is no longer meant for eating, at least by humans. Only 20 percent of all the gazillions of ears of corn the United States grows make it into a person's mouth as corn.
The rest goes to feed animals (which do make it into people's mouth as beef and other meats) and to brew corn ethanol. In one year, we used more than 5 billion bushels of corn for ethanol, which we don't even use that much of! -
Critical List: Australia inches from passing a carbon tax; Rick Perry’s secret economic sauce
Australia's carbon tax bill passed its lower House by a thin majority; it should easily pass the Senate and make it into law.
An oil cleanup contest awarded $1 million to the winning Team Elastec/American Marine, which soaked up 4,670 gallons of oil per minute and got to 89.5 percent of the oil, on average.
China is going to tax the hell out of oil and gas and reinvest the money in nuclear reactors and wind farms. -
To till or not to till
In farming circles, the debate about whether or not to till soil has been going on for years. Now the latest information from the Rodale Institute kicks up more dirt.
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Riding the crimson tide: bicycling when you have your period
Elly Blue demystifies the one true women's issue in bicycling: biking on your period.
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Experiment in (e)co-habitation gets the green light
It looks like a hippie commune. It smells like a hippie commune. But the Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage is not a hippie commune!
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Rick Perry's energy plan: drill more, pollute more, spew a lot of hot air
Rick Perry released a new attack ad and op-ed that lay out a strategy of drilling for more oil and gas and rolling back clean air and water standards.
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Food Studies: the taste-testers' blind spots
Why taste tests conducted in controlled environments don’t tell the whole story.
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Welcoming invasive species, while keeping terrorists out
Since Sept. 11, the Department of Homeland Security has scaled back efforts to protect the nation from destructive, invasive pests. How secure do you feel now?
