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Jeff Mitchell rides up and down California's Central Valley bearing a message: Farming without plowing saves soil and money.
Run as a Democrat.
What happens when it all melts? Read on.
Obama has been as bad as Bush when it comes to curbing ground-level ozone pollution. But soon he'll have another chance to get ozone rules right.
A reader worries that her banana peels are giving off bad gas. Umbra forks over some scrappy advice.
Louie Psihoyos promises his new documentary about extinction is a real-life Ocean's 11.
ERM, which wrote the environmental study on Keystone XL, did dodgy and deceptive stuff, but none of it amounted to serious rule breaking, says the State Department's inspector general.
The salty waste makes roads less slippery, but environmentalists warn that it contains nasty chemicals and radiation.
Farmers today don't muddy rivers as much as they used to -- but the full downstream picture is still quite dark.