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This time it's a spill of 100,000 gallons of coal slurry from a coal processing facility in West Virginia. Thanks, Patriot Coal!
As everyone on the East Coast complains about the cold, it's important to keep in the mind that the rest of the world is really quite warm.
Run as a Democrat.
This is a few steps more complicated than burning your trash pile.
A reader worries that her banana peels are giving off bad gas. Umbra forks over some scrappy advice.
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.
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.
Louie Psihoyos promises his new documentary about extinction is a real-life Ocean's 11.
In the '80s, Big Tobacco targeted the developing world, where cigarette demand was strong and regulation was weak. Now, energy companies are taking a page from their playbook.
