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New report shows dirty coal doing even more damage than you thought
A new study shows EPA has been undercounting the externalities imposed by ozone pollution, and thus understating net benefits of its new ozone rules.
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How the West is winning against coal
The past month across the western U.S. has been filled with victories against coal.
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Regional cap-and-trade advances
Everyone is disappointed about climate policy prospects. I can't say that I'm thrilled, but we should take heart at what's happening on the state level
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Ask Umbra’s Book Club: Would you blow up a mountain to save a bird species?
Umbra's discussion of her Book Club pick "Freedom" kicks off with a video of author Jonathan Franzen talking about compromises and energy options.
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My complicated love affair with a little gray Honda
With car ownership came a nagging suspicion that I was on the wrong side of a Big Issue. My purist environmentalist friends were sure about it: Anyone who gets angry about the wars over oil, they told me, can't have a car and a clean conscience at the same time. I didn't know if it was so simple.
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Food safety passes House, skulks back to Senate
Like a fallen eater rising from the mat after a nasty case of food poisoning, the food safety bill staggered back to life yesterday.
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Hunting, cooking, and eating squirrel [VIDEO]
You've heard about bugs being the next sustainable protein source, but what about squirrel? You may shudder, but plenty of cultures enjoy this plentiful, tasty meat -- and now, so do I.
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Support Clean Development to Save Ourselves
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is no stranger to using blunt tactics and messages when it comes to climate change. Last fall, he held a cabinet meeting underwater to drive home the threat rising sea levels pose to his low-lying island nation. A team of scientists in 2008 predicted average sea levels would rise between 2’5” […]
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Is EPA running scared from the incoming Republican Congress?
I've been worrying aloud on the blog that the Obama administration doesn't seem to be doing much to prepare for the relentless assault on EPA that's already underway, not only on its coming greenhouse gas regulations but on its entire agenda. Instead, the agency looks to be backing down.
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Sex: the next ethical industry?
Few sectors rival the global economic importance of sex, but so far sustainability professionals have left it completely untouched.
