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This conservative economist makes the case for a carbon tax
N. Gregory Mankiw, former advisor to George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, argues that a carbon tax could go hand-in-hand with deregulation.
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When I recycle a beer bottle, does it secretly end up in the landfill?
You toss your glass bottles in the recycling without a second thought -- but where do they end up? Umbra digs in to a national dilemma.
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Dirty energy plutocrats are trying to buy the presidential election
Just 158 families gave almost half of the early money in the race, the N.Y. Times reports -- and many made their fortunes from oil and gas.
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Communities in the San Joaquin Valley still don’t have clean water. Here’s why
In drought conditions, consolidating water systems brings out ugly politics.
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Victory! California guv signs bill to protect clotheslines
The Sunshine State reinforces its citizens' right to hang out their laundry in public with a new law.
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New York’s JFK airport has an urban farm. Wait, what?
An urban garden opens outside JetBlue Airways' Terminal 5.
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Even as House descends into chaos, it manages to do big favor for Big Oil
Republicans stopped quarreling long enough to vote for lifting the crude oil export ban, which would be good for oil companies and bad for the climate.
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Solar power access looking a lot brighter in California
Thanks to a new bill, California is making low-income access to solar power happen on a larger scale than anywhere else in the country.
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Pour a glass of booze and saddle up for this week’s birth control news
We're talking imprisoned mothers, late-term abortions, Amy Poehler, and apple cake for this week's Shots & Chasers.
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Media disaster reporting can throw a wrench in the way you process disaster risk
A new study in Nature Climate Change suggests that news reports on natural disasters can actually reduce risk perceptions.
