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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.
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EPA bashes State Department’s ‘insufficient’ Keystone report
The EPA says State still hasn't done its homework on the Keystone XL pipeline's potential environmental effects.
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World’s energy nearly as dirty today as it was 20 years ago
Between 1990 and 2010, we made very little progress in cleaning up our energy supplies, according to a report from the International Energy Agency.
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Flood-drought-flood: Is this the new normal?
Drought has given way to flooding in the Midwest, the latest manifestation of a vicious cycle that appears to be driven by climate change.
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Koch brothers want to buy L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, six other papers
Billionaire oil barons Charles and David Koch -- mega-funders of climate denial and right-wing causes -- are looking to get into the media business.
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A tale of two Earth Day heroes: Tim DeChristopher and Sandra Steingraber
Just as DeChristopher is being released from prison, where he served 18 months for disrupting an oil and gas auction, Steingraber is going to jail for protesting fracking.
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GOP goes hunting for EPA emails about turducken
… but misses the big picture of the agency's transparency problems.
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Silly New York town board drops ban on talking about fracking
The leaders of Sanford, N.Y., barred citizens from speaking about fracking during public meetings -- until a lawsuit scared them into respecting free speech.
