The green news is afoot! (Last week: Scandal.)

Fixing old pipelines would create way more jobs than building Keystone XL:

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Michael Pollan dissed the Paleo diet:

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Last year was either the fourth or seventh hottest on record:

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An asshole hit a cyclist and drove home without noticing he was stuck in the windshield:

PETA compared animal cruelty to slavery on MLK, Jr. Day:

Beijing may be super-polluted, but it’s banning new power plants: