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How the oil boom in Montana has turned railroads into a pipeline
Yesterday, we worried about pipelines. Today: trains.
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Baseball’s All-Star Game: So green, you’ll forget the game doesn’t matter
How green is the All-Star Game? So green, even the red carpet is green.
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The worst onshore oil spill in American history didn’t have to happen
The actions of the owner of a pipeline that dumped a million gallons of tar-sands oil into the Kalamazoo River made a bad situation worse.
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Is fracking polluting Pennsylvania groundwater or not?
It depends on how you want to frame it. But a new study provides no evidence that it does.
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Ethanol: Beloved by farmers, detested by Big Oil, endlessly debated by Congress
A case study in how change is made in Washington: slowly, with much debate, and with tangential regard for the science.
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How nearly empty swaths of Montana guide policy on the Keystone pipeline
While Montana is home to only 0.3 percent of America's population, it controls 2 percent of the Senate. And that 2 percent supports Keystone.
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Patriot Coal files for bankruptcy
The company cites the coal industry's "major transformation" in a public statement.
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Black lung disease, once on the brink of extinction, is back. Thank the coal industry
A new report from NPR and the Center for Public Integrity finds that an affliction once nearly eradicated is back – and more dangerous than ever.
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Apple withdraws its products from national environmental standard
Apple's new MacBook laptops are hard to take apart, and thus hard to recycle, so they fail to meet one key green standard.
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Norway could halt all oil extraction tonight, probably only temporarily
Not that a fella can't dream.