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Carly Fiorina fumbles on Prop 23 issue during California Senate debate

In her first debate with Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina couldn't give a straightforward answer to the simple question of whether she supported Prop 23.

This Labor Day, will Trader Joe's finally do right by farmworkers?

Trader Joe's is among the most recent targets of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Campaign. But if Joe is feeling the heat, he ain't showing it.

Koch brothers jump into Prop 23 fight

A company controlled by the billionaire Koch brothershas donated $1 million to the campaign to suspend California's global-warming law.

California bags the plastic bag ban but makes solar leap

The Golden State failed to ban plastic bags and may reverse its landmark climate bill AB 32, but it's also adding solar panel capacity like crazy.

Friday music blogging: Arcade Fire

You can bet an artist is grappling with questions of place and home and belonging when she belts out a line like, "Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small / that we can never get away from the sprawl ... Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there's no end in sight."

Mariner Energy cited for two violations in past six months, totaling $55,000

I know that you are shocked to learn the owner of the offshore oil platform that exploded yesterday in the Gulf had two violations just this year

The environmentalist's paradox: we do better while the earth does worse

More people have more money, health, mobility, food, and security than ever before in human history. The natural world, however, is going to sh*t.

Latest Gulf oil well explosion was no disaster, but what does it say about offshore drilling?

Thursday's fire in the Gulf had little in common with the BP disaster, but critics of offshore drilling say it highlights how risky the practice is.

Six ways to save time and energy in the kitchen

Labor Day weekend is the perfect time to get your kitchen organized. Here are some tips that will help you cook delicious meals from scratch quickly and easily, and waste less of that seasonal produce you're buying.

Inhofe "Inception"

The National Wildlife Federation Climate Capsule team’s favorite summer movie was Inception. It got us to thinking, what if you could enter the dreams of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Big Oil’s MVP? Also this week — updates on tar sands, heat waves & a climate denier’s flip-flop. Watch this week’s NWF Climate Capsule! (Don’t worry […]