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Bees and butterflies get a boost from the feds
A new White House program doesn't have a lot of muscle behind it, but at least it acknowledges the problem of declining pollinator populations.
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Tell the EPA what you think of its climate rules
The official public comment period has started and the agency is just dying to find out what you think.
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Turns out there are a few Republicans who want to do something about climate change
Former EPA chiefs who served under four Republican presidents are backing the Obama administration's efforts to regulate CO2 from power plants.
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Why Big Oil is giving piles of money to the NRA
Guns and oil -- they're not just for foreign policy anymore. A new series from Al Jazeera explains why.
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Oakland votes to keep coal and oil trains away
The city council also moved to divest from fossil-fuel stocks.
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Democrats are getting greener and Republicans are getting dirtier
Increasing partisan polarization is driving the two major parties farther apart on environmental policy. Example A: the wind energy tax credit.
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Hillary Clinton won’t discuss Keystone XL
Clinton is promoting her new book "Hard Choices," but she's dodging a choice on the controversial pipeline.
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This is how much America spends putting out wildfires
As the West burns, the way the feds fight wildfires doesn't jibe with the reality of climate change.
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The Kochs are cooking up a new dirty-energy political scheme
The brothers and their allies are gearing up to spend $290 million on this year's elections, including money for a new energy initiative.
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HBO shocks us again: Did Gina McCarthy just declare war on coal?
EPA administrator Gina McCarthy went ahead and all but declared the Obama administration’s war on coal on Real Time with Bill Maher.
