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  • Climate activists hit the streets for Step It Up, and more

    Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: A Big Step Conoco Your Own Way He Covers the Hotter Front Calling All Hawks Marian Devil Just Doesn’t Have the Same Ring Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: The Route of the Problem Don’t Get Rattled Stop It

  • With Habitat for Humanity

    In a recent collaboration with U2 on "The Saints Are Coming," Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day sang about a house in New Orleans. But he spent this weekend hammering soffit onto one, as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. Armstrong brought along some friends and his fam to help with the project as well, […]

  • The Polar Excise

    U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate Remember when U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the agency would propose listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act? And he said that, while the bears’ home was indeed melting, “that whole aspect of climate change is beyond the scope of the [ESA]”? […]

  • The Err Up There

    EPA relaxes clean-air requirements for ethanol-fuel plants Before last week, plants turning corn into liquor (yes, please) were allowed to emit 250 tons of emissions per year before triggering clean-air regulations, while those processing corn into ethanol fuel could emit only 100 tons annually. Just doesn’t seem fair, does it? So the U.S. EPA did […]