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This legendary accounting firm ran the numbers on climate change
We're 20 years away from catastrophe, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Why Americans love to hate the train — and always have
A cross-country train trip serves as a reminder that Big Rail once called all the shots, until we pushed back against its reshaping of the U.S. landscape.
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How Hillary Clinton’s State Department sold fracking to the world
A trove of secret documents details the U.S. government's global push for shale gas.
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Reno won Tesla’s gigafactory. Was it worth it?
It's the 10th largest incentive deal ever, with Nevada paying nearly $200,000 per job.
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Bad news for Obama: Fracking may be worse than burning coal
New science shows that thanks to methane leaks, gas won't work as a "bridge fuel."
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Why food prices scaled the peaks — and why it matters
You may not have felt a thing, but when food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, they sent experts into a tizzy of debate over why it happened and what we can learn.
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China just got serious about global warming. Now we’re really out of excuses.
The world's biggest polluter will set up a carbon market as early as 2016. Here's why that matters.
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Google trend watch: The indoors are the new outdoors
Google brings backpacking indoors with a very sexy and subtle new virtual mapping device!
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The personal (technology) is political, part two
Web technologies are embedded in socioeconomic structures that are designed to exploit workers and consumers to the benefit of capital.
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What do the new climate rules have to do with my kid’s asthma?
The EPA is selling its new power plant regulations as a salve for polluted communities. But the devil is in the details.
