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Why is Environmental Defense Fund spending $1 million to elect Republicans?
The group's campaign arm, EDF Action, is working to elect mildly pro-climate GOP candidates, even though Democrats are greener.
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Meet the Wisconsin Republicans who love solar
Yes, there are conservatives who support renewable energy in the midwest. However, they do tend to lose primaries.
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There’s oil-by-rail good news, and oil-by-rail bad news
Under new rules, old tank cars won't be ferrying explosive Bakken crude. Instead, they'll carry dirty tar sands crude.
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Texas messes with Texas, pits landowners against pipeline-builders
Texas loves Big Oil, and the state has let companies run pipelines pretty much anywhere. But Texas also loves property holders, and some of them are unhappy.
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When did Republicans start hating green? When green started helping blacks
A new study dates the GOP's distaste for the environment to 1992, just as the country was realizing that policies were steering pollution disproportionately to communities of color and low income.
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When did Republicans start hating the environment?
Roughly 1991, according to a new study.
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Keystone XL could be even worse than you thought
The pipeline could lead to up to four times as much CO2 pollution as the State Department has estimated, according to a new study.
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The little seed library that could … get busted by a state ag department
A modest local effort to build a seed library in Pennsylvania calls down the wrath of the state's farm regulators.
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The U.S. firefighting budget is almost gone, but the forests are still burning
We're throwing so much money at fighting wildfires, there will be little left over for prevention.
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Exploding oil-train owners want insurance slack — just like nuclear power
It costs so much to get adequate insurance for all those rail cars hauling crude across the continent! Why can't the railroads get the same breaks government gives nuclear operators?
