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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.
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Here’s the right way to make transit and density work in the suburbs
Bethesda, Md., a suburb of D.C., is a great example of smart growth. Let’s hope the state’s new GOP governor doesn’t screw that up.
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3 stories that will shape the climate fight in 2015
Thanks to some of the past year's less-expected developments, environmentalism and the climate movement may have some rare opportunities for progress in 2015.
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Watch the year’s biggest climate stories in 2 minutes
A year of extreme weather, climate denial, and some hope.