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Game Changer: EPA Asserts Tar Sands Pipeline Environmental Analysis is Inadequate
This post was co-written by Lena Moffitt, Washington Representative for the Sierra Club Dirty Fuels Campaign. This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) blasted the State Department’s draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline – asserting that the EIS is “woefully deficient” because “the Draft EIS does not provide the […]
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Want raw milk? Lease a farm — and hire a lawyer
As recent raids on private food-buying clubs indicate, the U.S. is moving closer to judicial consideration of whether consumers can freely opt out of the factory-food system and eat what they want directly from small farms.
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London builds bike ‘superhighways’ with groundbreaking blue paint
To keep bikers safe and speedy, the two eight-mile tracks use the innovative technology of ... bright blue paint.
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Harvesting personal energy to create Ohio’s clean energy future
When it comes to renewable energy, we hear plenty about the latest developments in solar and wind. But what about the latest developments in kinetic energy?
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Sodexo to pay New York $20 million for school-meal rebate fraud
Sodexo, one of the world's largest food service companies, has agreed to settle complaints that it fraudulently pocketed rebates from food manufacturers that it was supposed to turn over to some 21 public school districts and the State University of New York
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CSI: Climate scene investigator
How do we know that human activities are responsible for warming the planet? Because just like criminals, climate change culprits, such as smokestack or tailpipe emissions, leave behind distinctive signatures or patterns. All climate investigators have to do is look closely enough, and hardly anyone has been looking longer or more carefully than Benjamin Santer.
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Amanda Little Needs to Rinse the Oil Out of Her Brain
I’ve always loved Amanda Little’s writing – and her news-breaking, hard-hitting interviews. But her latest incarnation as a “pro-drilling environmentalist,” while clearly well-meaning, is so divorced from the economic and political reality of oil that it deserves an open plea to escape what is clearly too much time spent in the barrel of Big Oil’s […]
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House Ag Committee to USDA: Take your livestock reform and shove it
The USDA tries to level the playing field for small poultry producers, but the House Ag Committee plays block and tackle on industry's behalf.
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Putting climate criticism where it belongs
It's funny that we still understand climate change as an "environmental issue" and consider it the job of "the environmentalists" to avert the widespread human suffering it threatens to create.
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What Gulf spill? Around the world, deepwater drilling keeps on keepin’ on
Deepwater drilling continues around the world, despite the Gulf disaster.
