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Republicans' top priorities: approving the Keystone XL pipeline and blocking Obama's plan to curb CO2 emissions from power plants.
A modest local effort to build a seed library in Pennsylvania calls down the wrath of the state's farm regulators.
Reacting to an uptick in fatal great white shark attacks, the country’s Conservative Party has decided to kill any shark that comes anywhere near the beach.
Happily, more and more people are seeing through the hype.
A copper tailings pond discharged more than 10 million cubic meters of waste into nearby water, threatening an important salmon spawning ground.
Since government won't monitor whether the oil-and-gas boom is wrecking air quality, volunteers have stepped in. Now their work is getting peer-reviewed and published.
Oil giants are now trying to present themselves as poverty fighters and defenders of human wellbeing.
If you're driving through the tightly packed residential neighborhood in south central L.A., you're liable to miss the whole operation.
On a real scorcher of a day, the mercury downtown can roar 24 degrees above the temps in the surrounding desert. Other cities are feeling the heat, too.
