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USDA study finds that climate bill will benefit farmers

Photo: Dog CompanyThe climate and energy legislation that the House passed in June would increase revenues for farmers, according to...

Kate Sheppard Politics July 24, 2009

We need an energy revolution

The United States today spends some $400 billion a year importing oil from countries like Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Mexico, Russia,...

Sen. Bernie Sanders Politics July 23, 2009

After Precarious Climate Vote, Grassroots Pressure Needed More Than Ever

With right-leaning Dems holding the upper-hand right now, it will take a monster grassroots push to counter corporate interest pressure and allow us to strengthen the Waxman-Markey bill.

Bill Scher Politics June 29, 2009

Thoreau, Walden and civil disobedience in the age of climate change

On a frigid January night some years ago, a friend and I snuck into a Massachusetts state preserve, stripped naked,...

Jonathan Hiskes Climate & Energy August 27, 2009

The Non-Concession concession?

Henry Waxman and Ed Markey seem to have mastered the art of the non-concession concession: striking deals with potential opponents...

Glenn Hurowitz Politics June 25, 2009

Four years after my pleading essay, climate art is hot

That pleading little essay I wrote in 2005? It was probably the last moment I could have written it. Clearly...

Bill McKibben Culture August 6, 2009

Must-read NOAA paper smacks down the deniers

Nothing occupies global warming deniers more than trying to prove that the U.S. temperature record — a tiny portion of...

Joseph Romm Climate & Energy July 21, 2009

EPA: Chemicals found in Wyo. drinking water might be from fracking

This story was written by ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten. Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination near the ranching town...

ProPublica Uncategorized August 26, 2009

Rethinking food production for a world of 8 billion

In April 2005, the World Food Programme and the Chinese government jointly announced that food aid shipments to China would...

Lester Brown Food and Agriculture July 7, 2009

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