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Fresh off last year’s successful defeat of federal climate legislation in the U.S. Senate, the oil baron Koch brothers and...
Dr. Grist fills in the blanks.We are not going to solve climate change. That’s not pessimism — it’s just not...
Is Obama wasting Sen. Bingaman’s time?Photo: The White HouseIn his State of the Union speech, Obama introduced an ambitious plan...
Can Senate Democrats snatch a defeat from the jaws of victory? Yes, that was a rhetorical question. Politico has them...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had a bit of an outburst at a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources...
The drinking water of tens of millions of Pennsylvanians is threatened by natural-gas fracking — including the 2.3 million who...
How much is it worth to you to put up with contaminated drinking water?Photo: Helen SlottjeLet’s define “Appalachia” at the...
A senior US senator on Thursday ruled out violent unrest across the Middle East as a main cause of surging...
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