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If killer weather is in our future, can we get better at predicting it?
NOAA reports that the planet has just been through the warmest January-to-July period on record.
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Smoggy senators protest EPA plan to save thousands of children’s lives
In a startling act of fealty to polluter interests, several senators are fighting scientifically guided smog limits that would save thousands of lives a year.
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The other new EPA rules that could threaten coal plants
There are a number of things brewing at the EPA that are making coal utility executives nervous.
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The two biggest (non-CO2) threats to coal power from the EPA
EPA is working furiously on clean-air rules, and coal-dominated utilities are terrified. Some of the oldest, dirtiest coal plants will be shut down.
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Breaking: The Onion is funny
What's the only thing worse than an oil spill? A non-spill. "Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe," The Onion reports.
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From Big Energy to Congress, the money pipeline never closes
A new website lets us follow the prodigious flow of cash from oil companies to the politicians who do their bidding.
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Barack Obama, cleantech venture capitalist?
Mike Dorning of Bloomberg Businessweek has a clever way of looking at the nation's most powerful cleantech investor.
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The fate of mass transit in an age of deficit hysteria
As deficit hysteria mounts, the bad economy is derailing what little green infrastructure we have. Now it's really time for greens to get active in the economic-policy debate, or risk being stuck with outdated technologies like the car.
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USDA wants us to 'know your farmer,' FDA wants us to stay home
A new federal law went into effect last month, supposedly designed to reduce the risk of Salmonella enteritidis contamination, which requires farms with more than 3,000 hens to abide by strict sanitation practices, including keeping customers out of the chicken houses. Is there something they don't want us to see?
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Colorado Tea Party candidate struggles to explain U.N.-bicycle conspiracy
Colorado gov Tea Party candidate Dan Maes has argued that Denver's bike-share program is a plan for converting Denver into a UN community. Maes appeared on MSNBC to explain
