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San Francisco and 10 other cities move toward dumping stocks in fossil-fuel companies
A divestment campaign pushed by 350.org is spreading from colleges to cities. Boulder, Colo., Eugene, Ore., and Ithaca, N.Y. are also on board.
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Now you can track the inexorable progress of climate change on Twitter
The Keeling Curve is now on Twitter, mixing depressing information about carbon concentrations in with your usual diet of unsourced news and parody accounts.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s political group funds ads promoting Keystone and ANWR drilling
The group, founded by the Facebook boss and other tech titans to promote immigration reform, is financing ads that call for more oil exploration. What gives?
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Everybody chill out a little, carbon trading will be fine
A recent effort to reform the European Union's carbon-trading system failed, but that doesn't mean carbon trading is dead in Europe, or anywhere else.
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Obama’s group Organizing for Action finally takes up climate change … sort of
The Obama team isn't pushing for climate legislation, it's just trying to embarrass climate deniers in Congress. But better than nothing, right?
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Fuel barges explode, burn through night in Alabama
Two gasoline barges in Mobile went up in flames on Wednesday night, critically injuring three people. The fire was put out on Thursday morning, and now an investigation into the causes is underway.
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A big blow for Big Coal in Wisconsin
One coal-fired power plant will be shut down and others will be cleaned up to make amends for air pollution violations, thanks to the EPA.
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TransCanada and GOP steamed over EPA’s Keystone comments
The company that wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline accused the EPA of meddling in Canadian affairs after the agency warned of environmental impacts from the project.
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Free-market fans hate climate science, heart conspiracy theories
Why do climate deniers refuse to accept that climate change is happening despite overwhelming scientific evidence? A new study may provide a clue.
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Court hands EPA a victory in fight against mountaintop-removal mining
A federal appeals court has ruled that the EPA can block a permit for a big, controversial coal mine in West Virginia. Activists are celebrating.