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The Climate Post: Scientific papers paint most accurate portrait of Earth’s future yet

Just in time for the ongoing talks in Cancun, Mexico, the U.K.'s Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research has rounded up a trove of cutting-edge scientific research that paints what may be the most accurate portrait of Earth's future to date. Plus, how to blame extreme weather on climate change (without having to apologize for doing so) and what Tea Partiers and environmentalists agree on.

What if there had never been a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? [SLIDESHOW]

In pictures, a dystopian view of the world we would have inherited had not President Nixon signed the EPA into law forty years ago today.

Congress passes the school lunch bill, but there's less to it than meets the eye

The House finally joined the Senate in passing child nutrition legislation. Sustainable-food advocates are cheering, but the new law won't transform the dismal nature of school lunches.

Jon Stewart smacks Glenn Beck over food safety bill

The Daily Show comedian praises the Senate for passing (well, almost) the food safety bill, and mocks Fox for FDA fear-mongering. I wonder, maybe Glenn Beck doesn't want the FDA poking around in his business?

Concentrating solar thermal power, distributed

Solar thermal power -- or concentrating solar power -- can be done in a distributed fashion.

Food safety bill enters horror-movie phase, thanks to Senate snafu

Just when you thought it was safe to quit thinking about the Food Safety Modernization Act, it's baaaaaack. In the Senate, site of its triumph last week. And this time, it might not make it out alive.

Students call for clean energy, thank EPA

Co-written by Kim Teplitzky of the Sierra Student Coalition. Yesterday, despite some fierce weather in our nation’s capital, members of the Sierra Student Coalition hung bright, colorful pinwheels on Capitol Hill and in front of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters. (See more photos here) The pinwheels came from thousands of college students across the U.S., […]

The Fantastic 4 of climate change nonsense

Experts at the World Bank think there are four things holding back action on climate change -- too bad they're wrong about almost all of them.

Big Poultry ramps up its assault on the Chesapeake

You know how gigantic factory farms raise tens of millions of chickens a year on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, befowling what was once a dramatically productive wild ecosystem? Well, according to Tyson and Perdue execs, it's high time to set up hundreds more poultry factories there.

A possible win during the lame duck?

Sen. Maria Cantwell has taken an initiative, supported by 26 other senators, that is an immediate, lame-duck-session issue.  It has to do with the extension of a program, the “Section 1603 Treasury Grant Program,” that has played an important role over the last couple of years to build the renewable energy industry. See the link here for more […]