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Sure, the company has to pay a couple million here and a couple million there because of its bad behavior, but it made $45 billion in profits last year, so no problem.
Note: There's a terrible, terrible drought going on in Texas.
Ten years ago this week, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and he appointed me to be the Secretary...
A mocha stout granola bar made with Ghirardelli Chocolate and spent beer grain? We'll drink to that.
Alternate, Upworthy-style headline: "You'll never believe which bodily fluid is not safe to buy online!"
When the president unveiled his climate action plan last summer, he failed to account for the underserved communities that bear the brunt of our fossil fuel addiction. A new petition aims to change that.
Part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge is being studied for potential Superfund designation, the first time plastic pollution has prompted such consideration.
Thirty years ago, scientists applied fertilizer to two test plots. More than 12 percent of the nitrogen is still in the soil, and nearly as much has leached into groundwater.
A series of hurricanes has left the National Flood Insurance Program hopelessly in debt. A 2012 law aimed to fix that, but with residents of flood-prone areas irate, lawmakers are backpedaling.
