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Tired of worrying about climate change? Vote Pitbull for president!
Hope on climate change has come from a direction you never expected.
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Inslee on Seattle tunnel: “No one is more frustrated by this project than I am”
The governor insists that the tunnel still needs to be built, and that the contractor will pay to fix Bertha. "We’re like the guy who’s having his house remodeled and the contractor hasn’t done any work in the past year because his buzz saw isn’t working."
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Here’s why the Keystone fight isn’t pointless
The battle is about power -- and the climate movement now has more of it than ever.
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Leave the damn fossil fuels in the ground, says big nerdy study
For a somewhat safe climate, 82 percent of world coal reserves and every drop of Arctic oil must not be burned.
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Why do we have a Congress that hates the planet? Blame nonvoters
Why not vote? An anarchist gives his reasons.
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Senate Democrats plan to kneecap the GOP’s Keystone bill
The newly weakened Senate Democratic caucus is trying to muster all the opposition it can to the impending vote on the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Brazil’s new science minister is a climate denier
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says she's serious about confronting climate change, but then why did she appoint denier Aldo Rebelo?
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This Republican believes in climate change. Too bad he’s a convicted felon who’s leaving Congress
Michael Grimm was one of a precious few Republican politicians who actually accepted the science of climate change.
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The USDA might tell Americans to eat less beef for the sake of the environment
It turns out that what's healthier for humans is also healthier for the climate.
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How the suburbs could go from rot to rad
With decaying housing and falling revenues, inner-ring suburbs built in the 1950s are becoming the newest slums. But where there are protests, there's hope.