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Fixing old water and gas pipelines would create far more jobs than building Keystone XL
If job creation is our primary goal, then the Keystone XL pipeline is still not the right move.
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Key enviro law suspended in California under drought emergency
When Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought, he quietly suspended parts of one of the state's landmark laws, the California Environmental Quality Act.
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Europe wimps out on climate and clean energy
Sure, it's still better than the rest of the world, but activists and scientists had been hoping for stronger goals on CO2 emissions and renewable energy.
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The madding cloud: When forecasting the future, scientists’ blind spot is above them
Clouds -- or a shortage of them -- could send the climate into a tailspin. The trouble is, it's almost impossible to predict what they'll do.
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Nuclear plant leak patched up near Lake Erie
A nuclear power plant in Ohio leaked radioactive tritium into groundwater, but now the leak's been patched up and there's no sign that Lake Erie was contaminated.
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Meet the anti-government conspiracy theorist behind GOP environmental policy
By day, Doyel Shamley helps congressional staffers understand natural resource law. By night, he's an Illuminati conspiracy theorist.
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Leaping blizzards: Global warming produces bigger snowfalls
Global warming may make more intense blizzards, but deniers won't take snow for an answer.
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Tough love: Can a local leader save the EPA’s troubled southeast region?
A former Mississippi mayor takes the helm of an office that has long been at odds with environmental justice leaders. She doesn't have much green cred, but that may be just as well.
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Last year was the fourth hottest on record, or maybe the seventh
Either way, it was really hot. In fact, 2013 was the 37th year in a row of above-average global temperatures, according to NOAA.
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Oil (drilling) and climate action don’t mix
New White House adviser John Podesta tries -- and fails -- to defend Obama's "all of the above" energy policy.