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How did Newark Mayor Cory Booker do on his food stamp challenge?
Newark Mayor Cory Booker lived on food stamps for a week, and figured out being poor and not drinking coffee sucks.
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Van Jones on Obama: Climate will be ‘the issue he’s judged on’
The president's former green jobs czar thinks growing public concern over climate change obligates Obama to take leadership on the issue.
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USDA backpedals on healthy school-lunch rules
After kids and conservatives complained, the agency is lifting limits on the amount of meats and grains that can be served in school meals.
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The U.N. climate conference wraps up, and now all of our problems are solved
Except for our climate problems.
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Students’ fossil-fuel divestment campaign aims at colleges’ creamy moral centers
350.org's campaign to create pressure on universities to divest from fossil fuel companies is not just rolling -- it's snowballing.
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Famed idiot Lord Monckton banned for life from U.N. climate talks
His impromptu speech denying global warming didn't go over well in Doha.
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House GOP finds perfect energy committee staffer in the energy industry
I know! We were surprised, too!
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As global climate talks founder, young people demand real change
Delegates from around the world have convened in Qatar for the COP18 climate talks. Frustrated with the inaction, youth activists raise some hell.
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Tim DeChristopher banned from dangerous acts of ‘social justice’
The climate activist, now done serving time for disrupting an oil lease auction, has been banned by feds from working in a church's social justice ministry.
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Obama can tackle climate in his second term, and he doesn’t need Congress to do it
Here’s how Obama can crack down on carbon from filthy old coal-fired power plants and substantially reduce U.S. emissions -- without any help from Congress.