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How air-conditioning is baking our world
Q & A: Stan Cox explains in his new book, Losing Our Cool, how AC is a big driver of global warming and unsustainable development.
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The polluters' newfound concern for the poor
Oil companies think they will deliver the masses from poverty and the World Bank seems to agree. But do their projects actually support the poor?
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Court rules rBGH-free milk *is* better than the kind produced with artificial hormones. Now what?
News that an appeals court is overturning Ohio's ban on "rBGH-free" milk labeling has caused quite a splash. The court disagrees with the FDA that there is no "compositional difference" between milk produced with and without the artificial growth hormones. What happens now?
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Lessons from the climate fight: McCain's a tool
One fact that bobs to the surface as you read Ryan Lizza's New Yorker piece on the death of the climate bill is that John McCain is kind of a tool.
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American overwork and German “short work”
The German concept of Kurzarbeit, or "short work," encourages employers to reduce hours rather than lay workers off when business is slow.
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Peabody Coal's Plan to Save the World…Or Itself?
The coal industry is a filthy business, but that doesn’t stop the industry from spending a fortune on PR consultants to try and distract attention away from the costs it imposes on Americans every day. With labels like “clean coal” and “green coal,” the coal industry’s spinmeisters spend a lot of time and money trying […]
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In search of black and Latino farmers in the sustainable food movement
One woman's journey to explore the urban-ag movement, learn to farm, and search for her black roots.
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Coal Is King In China, And Top Priority For Engineers Determined To Lower Climate Risks
TIANJIN, China – This industrious nation’s allegiance to construction projects of massive scale are as familiar to the world as the 2,500-year-old, 5,500-mile Great Wall of China, which protected the country’s northern frontier, and as imposing as the wide moats and towering red stone walls of the 600-year-old Forbidden City at the heart of Beijing. […]
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Republican guv candidates line up to say no to federal stimulus money for rail
The creation of a modern rail network in the United States is becoming just another political football.
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It's on! EPA's Lisa Jackson whacks back at fossil fuel lobbyists
Next to Barack Obama, EPA chief Lisa Jackson may be the favorite target of Big Business lobbyists and their Republican cronies in Congress.
