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Your car will soon be less polluting, thanks to EPA’s new gasoline rule
Oil refiners will have to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline, which will help combat asthma, lung disease, and premature births and deaths.
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Could the Keystone pipeline give you cancer?
Sen. Barbara Boxer is warning that tar-sands oil poses significant health risks. She's calling on the State Department to do a new study on the issue.
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Five dumb bills just passed by the House would screw the environment
To celebrate "Stop Government Abuse Week," Republicans in the House passed legislation that would muck up the regulatory process and hamstring the EPA.
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Slope & change: The ski industry struggles to get its act together on global warming
Business leaders say they're serious about taking the climate fight to Washington. But judging from the friends they're making there, global warming isn't their most pressing concern.
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Millions of dolphins could be hurt as oil industry blasts along East Coast
The Obama administration has tentatively OK'd industry plans to conduct seismic tests in Atlantic waters. That could screw over marine mammals.
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America’s first carbon-trading program can boast some impressive numbers
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative collected about $1 billion from 2009 to 2012 and is expected to save $2 billion in lowered energy bills.
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How big meat recalls hurt small cattle ranches
The recent recall of 9 million pounds of meat won't just harm the Rancho Feeding slaughterhouse. It has the potential to put small producers out of business, too.
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You might see fewer oil trains on the tracks, thanks to a new emergency order
But new rules still don't go nearly far enough to protect communities along rail lines from explosions and fires.
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Uber complicated: Rideshare legal battles heat up across the country
Cities are debating how to regulate ridesharing companies like Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar. Here's a map tracking the legal skirmishes across the country.
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Bummer for anti-Keystoners: Report finds no conflict of interest, despite obvious conflicts of interest
ERM, which wrote the environmental study on Keystone XL, did dodgy and deceptive stuff, but none of it amounted to serious rule breaking, says the State Department's inspector general.