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Black lawmakers push back against coal utilities’ new trick
Utilities are using black lawmakers to drive up prices on clean energy -- and the long-term health of low-income communities of color hangs in the balance.
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Climate change makes us want to punch someone, says science
The National Bureau of Economic Research points out the connection between climate change and ... bar fights?
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Honey, climate change is shrinking the kids
A new study finds that rising temperatures have downsized mountain goats by 25 percent in just 30 years. Cute, but not good.
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All that light pollution is wasting energy AND making you sick
Our addiction to electricity is giving everyone jet lag.
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This fracking protest is more like Bonnaroo than Occupy
Who wouldn't want to get down to Britney Spears' "Toxic" at a fracking protest?
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Craft brewers join the fight against natural gas pipelines
At the base of the Blue Ridge, a battle is brewing over a massive pipeline designed to pull shale gas to the Atlantic Coast.
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This could be the hottest year on record, again
The first nine months of 2014 broke the heat record, and now we're on track for this whole year to be the warmest ever.
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How skyrocketing development in Texas could suck the state dry
The Lone Star State is losing open space faster than any other, and that's bad news for the water cycle.
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The Anthropocene is here, whether geologists make it official or not
Humans rule the world, for worse or for worse.
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We don’t, and can’t, know how much it will cost to tackle climate change
Report after report claims to tell us how much climate action will cost this century. But no matter how much faux specificity our climate economic models produce, the fact is that we cannot know.