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To get out of paying $6 million in state taxes, Shell decided to try to tow a drilling rig from Alaska to Seattle in the middle of a storm.
When House Republicans sacrificed the farm bill to the fiscal cliff, they left farmers bereft of crucial reforms. So why does rural America keep voting for them?
They sure love swimming and diving! And if you don't eat meat, don't think any more about it.
After the 2000 census, many states used politics and innovative mapping technology to gerrymander new electoral districts to lock in...
Juventina Villa Mojica's efforts to preserve local forest conflicted with the gangs' desire to plant more drugs.
Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, has some unconventional ideas for gift-giving this season -- and she needs a little help.
When we attribute superhuman powers to the words of the resident of the White House, we take our eyes off the way political change really unfolds.
It's just natural gravity at work this time, but soon the waters could be this high all the dang time.
With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land...
