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In her first reelection ad of the year, Landrieu comes out swinging on behalf of the oil industry. Unfortunately, it's not just talk.
A sneak peak at a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist's new book about the tar-sands oil rush.
Sam Dryden led the Gates Foundation's farm program for five years, guided less by his background in Big Ag than his upbringing on a hardscrabble Appalachian farm.
Developers have figured out that food is more popular than golf, so they're now wrapping housing communities around farmland instead of links.
Pipeline operator TransCanada paid 60 percent less in taxes to Nebraska than it promised. But the company says it'll pay more next year!
The 19th-century naturalist and political philosopher argued that slavery laid waste to the American landscape -- and not just in the South.
Energy giants have lobbied police to treat environmental activists like potential terrorists. Looks like it's working.
The fossil fuel industry thinks Americans have had just about enough of federal handouts for sources of energy that aren't fossil fuels.
In conjunction with a lot of other factors, but still.
