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Paul Ryan’s budget plan is very nice to Big Oil
Paul Ryan's proposed budget would keep Big Oil fat and happy while condemning the rest of us to high energy prices, job losses to other nations, and air pollution.
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Harry Reid slugs fossil fuels in the face
The Senate's top Democrat isn't only throwing punches at Romney. He's also got it in for climate deniers and the coal industry.
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As Obama runs toward the coal industry, it keeps running away
In the Bizarro world of the 2012 election, a Democrat attacks his Republican opponent for wanting to undermine the coal industry. What?
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Meet Keystone XL’s worst enemy: The burying beetle
This gross thing might stop that other gross thing.
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Activist group sends Obama a message by carving it into a cornfield
Hot tip from an ex-resident of D.C. to all you activists out there: If you want to get the president’s attention, standing outside the White House with some signs and bullhorns is not going to do it. Everyone does that. You have to get creative. Like these guys, who cut their message into a field […]
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Ted Cruz, Tea Party’s new Latino hero, is a bit loony on green issues
For a guy being touted as an intellectual, Cruz has some out-there views on toilets and Agenda 21, and some confused views on Keystone and cap-and-trade.
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The hunger wars in our future: Heat, drought, rising food costs, and global unrest
The physical effects of climate change will prove catastrophic. But the social effects -- food riots, state collapse, mass migrations, and conflicts of every sort -- could prove even more disruptive and deadly.
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More evidence of the EPA’s deeply nefarious plot to undermine coal
Our expose into the EPA's ability to move international energy markets, frack up natural gas, and vaporize coal seams. MUST CREDIT GRIST.
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Cincinnati bans fracking injection wells
The unanimous vote from the city council is a first for the state of Ohio.