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Heartland Institute tried to steal documents from Greenpeace
Okay, we don’t want to beat a dead horse here — like, say, the way certain organizations kept harping on the Climategate non-scandal — but allow us just one more instance of pointing and laughing at the Heartland Institute’s gross hypocrisy. When we last left our intrepidly two-faced heroes, they were wounded to the core […]
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Baby boomers are kicking your butt on caring about the environment
Guys, we have to step up our game, or we’re going to be smoked by our own parents. According to a new study from San Diego State University, baby boomers in their youth were more committed to social and environmental engagement than Gen-Xers or Millennials.
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Iceland plans to turn excess carbon into stone
Instead of smokestacks belching carbon into the air, plants and factories in Iceland may soon have well injectors to push the greenhouse gases underground. You might think this would inflate the Earth like a balloon and lift it out of orbit (okay, you probably don’t think that, but it’s a good image). But in fact, […]
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Can we solve global water scarcity?
The coauthor of a new study on global water supply thinks we can -- even though the results of his research don't look too encouraging.
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Snowe job: The Senate needs reform, not a bipartisan chorus of kumbayah
Fix Congress with more compromises, says retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe. "Give me a break," sighs David Roberts.
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Algae damn: Obama’s failed message on climate and energy innovation
By not mentioning climate change, Obama is letting the GOP rule the conversation on energy.
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Woman arrested for burning down 3,500-year-old tree
This is the Senator, the largest pond cypress in the U.S. and, at 3,500 years old, the fifth-oldest individual tree in the world. Or anyway, this was the Senator, because on Jan. 16, the Florida tree burned from the inside out. Authorities initially ruled out arson, saying that friction or smoldering lightning damage may have […]
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Rich white dudes: Environmentalists are out of touch with the working class
MSNBC’s Morning Joe is a font of conventional wisdom, so I don’t feel bad restating this old maxim: Everyone on Morning Joe is a jerk. Here’s the evidence, starting at 3:10 or so: [vodpod id=Video.16133528&w=425&h=250&fv=launch%3D46511433%26amp%3Bwidth%3D420%26amp%3Bheight%2D245] The ever-wise Joe says that Obama’s “environmental base” is holding him back because the only type of energy environmentalists like […]
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Texas lost half a billion trees in current drought
This is what long-term desertification looks like: The state of Texas lost 5.6 million urban trees -- and as many as 500 million forest trees -- in the drought that’s been going on since last year.
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One year in, GOP Solyndra investigation remains a gigantic nothingburger
One year after it started, the GOP investigation into Solyndra has found ... nothing. And independent analysts have found that the DOE loan guarantee program is on track and under budget. But Republicans aren't letting the facts stop their crusade.
