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Industry-funded Super Bowl ad rails against the (non-existent) soda tax

Maybe it’s just Monday-morning grumpiness, but I hate the media fixation with Super Bowl ads. Corporations and industry lobby groups...

Tom Philpott Technology February 7, 2011

House committee votes to deny climate change

Click for a larger version [PDF].Written with guest blogger Kristen Bartoloni, Researcher for Progress Central. Today, Republicans in the House...

Brad Johnson Science March 16, 2011

Budget fight threatens to turn Farm Bill into Industrial Ag Bill

Will eco-friendly and people-friendly farm programs get steamrolled?Will the next Farm Bill, scheduled for passage in 2012, put public policy...

Tom Philpott Food and Agriculture April 5, 2011

Inaction on climate change is risky business

Even Tom Cruise thinks some risky business should be avoided.Like a family that has no homeowner’s insurance, no fire detectors,...

Bill Becker Science February 16, 2011

Are you enjoying your daily chemical cocktail?

A 1970s-era Monsanto ad.Photo: Christian MontoneChemicals and additives found in the food supply and other consumer products are making headlines...

Kristin Wartman Food and Agriculture April 28, 2011

EPA lets natural gas industry brazenly pollute my state’s drinking water

That’s some fracked up sh*t: a natural gas rig does its thing in Dimock, Pa. Photo: Helen Slottje, via arimooreIn...

Tom Laskawy Energy February 28, 2011

New EPA regulations better but not good enough

The regulations will require the installation of scrubbers at plants like this one.Photo: Duke EnergyEPA released revised regulations for industrial...

Michael A. Livermore Technology February 28, 2011

Bingaman tells the truth about gas prices, is lonely in doing so

So I’m reading in Politico about Democratic fecklessness. (Yes, half my posts begin this way.) The problem is, whenever gas...

David Roberts Energy March 22, 2011

Ask Umbra on flatulence and climate change

Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, The other day I was sitting on the couch after a day...

Ask Umbra® Food and Agriculture March 28, 2011

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