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Is the USDA trying to silence a pesticide researcher?
A whistleblower complaint says the feds suspended a researcher because they didn't like his findings that a popular pesticide is harmful to monarch butterflies.
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This ad might be one of the only factual things you’ll hear during the Republican debate
The 30-second commercial about climate change is part of a TV ad buy from NextGen Climate.
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Will Obama come close to ending mass incarceration?
As President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, he continues to open and build new federal prisons in environmentally toxic areas.
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Fossil fuel companies aren’t just bad for the climate — they’re bad investments
A new report from Carbon Tracker finds that dirty energy industries are ignoring risks of declining demand, and they’ll suffer for it.
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The Middle East could be looking at 140-degree days thanks to climate change
A new study suggests that, unless we cut carbon emissions drastically, the Persian Gulf is going to become an uninhabitable inferno.
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Why you shouldn’t panic about human DNA in veggie dogs
Lab analysis of foods can be valuable, but we should be careful about context-free panics.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership could undermine climate regulations, top economist warns
Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz argues that the TPP could open up governments to corporate lawsuits over climate rules.
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Paul Ryan, incoming House speaker, is a right-wing extremist who wants to screw over the climate
Under Ryan’s vision for the country, our shift away from fossil fuels and cars would be impeded and our air and water quality worsened.
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Sorry, Pope Francis didn’t endorse Bernie Sanders
A fake news site reported that the pontiff endorsed the Socialist presidential hopeful. The internet fell for it.
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Labor conditions are awful at chicken plants, according to big report
An Oxfam America investigation looks into workplace conditions at big poultry processing plants -- and the results aren't pretty.
