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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.
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Obama to veto Keystone XL bill
President Barack Obama is planning to veto a bill that would force approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
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Leave it to West Virginia to confuse its students about science
The state board of education is introducing nonsense into teaching guidelines for climate change.