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If a new round of genetically engineered corn is approved, it will be bred to withstand huge quantities of 2,4-D, a pesticide that has the potential to drift and kill vegetables in fields as far as two miles away.
You know where your coffee beans come from -- so why not your gasoline? Did your $3.50 a gallon go to prop up our tar-sands-addicted frenemies in Canada?
In 2006, Romney supported high gas prices as a way to discourage consumption. He's since hit the reset button on that talking point, too.
With just hours left before a congressional holiday, it looks like House Speaker John Boehner, rather than accepting a bipartisan compromise, has opted to do nothing about the nation's roads.
David Owen's new book The Conundrum tries to make the case that increased energy efficiency only leads to increased consumption -- but is he cherry-picking his supporting data?
As long as Mitt Romney fails to clinch his nomination, we'll be talking about all the wrong things.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have figured out how to make cockroaches into creepy-crawly batteries. Finally, living in filth...
The fate of the U.S. coal industry hinges on its ability to increase exports to China and India. If activists can quash coal export terminals, they can hobble the coal industry.
Fifth-grader Clara Lazen was just messing around with a molecule modeling kit in class, trying to construct a stable molecule...
