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Rick Santorum rewrites the history of clean air in America
Here is a video of Rick Santorum lying about the history of clean air in America and specifically Pittsburgh.
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The Economist uses stale right-wing ideas to attack government regulation
The magazine has published a series on "Over-regulated America" that does nothing but contradict itself and repackage false claims about the costs of protective regulation.
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Swamp Thing yells at kids about littering
You gotta admit, Swamp Thing is basically the perfect anti-littering spokesman (especially now that Captain Planet has gone off the rails). I mean, he’s essentially made out of the environment. In this so-bad-it’s-awesome 1989 PSA, he lectures children about throwing plastic cups in the water.
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Industry mocks college students for fighting bottled water
College campuses across the country have been fighting to ban bottled water from campuses, and the International Bottled Water Association is fighting back with a pretty inane video.
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Young people expect the future to look like Thunderdome
Why do young people view the future as a dire place, even as their elders seem oblivious to the triple threat of climate change, resource scarcity, and growing inequality?
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Animated guide to building a Keystone XL
Turns out it's just a long concrete tube buried three to four feet under ground, rambling on for mile after mile, narrated by a guy with an adenoid problem.
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Here’s what the night sky ought to look like (i.e. AMAZING)
Here’s your nature porn for the day: a long exposure of the night sky over the aptly named Very Large Telescope array in Chile. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/36154212]
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Ask Umbra: Where do chemical-sucking plants go to die?
Some plants remove nasty contaminants from the soil. What happens to those leafy overachievers when their time is up? Umbra explores.
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Why we should all be drinking toilet water
If you live downstream from another city, you're probably already drinking treated wastewater -- and engineers want you to drink even more of it.
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Julianne Moore wants clean air for kids
Did you guys know Julianne Moore wrote a children’s book? This is apparently the thing celebrities do when they’re over 25 (under 25, they start a perfume line). It’s about the heartbreak of being a ginger, and not about environmental stuff at all, but that isn’t stopping Moore from plugging it in her video for […]
