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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.
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EPA’s new pesticide rules: Will they make a difference?
Farmworker training and rules for underage labor are valuable, but it's going to take more to change our chemical-laced system.
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Carbon dioxide pollution just killed 10 million scallops
An oyster producer in British Columbia has lost three years' worth of bivalves -- the latest in a growing line of commercial shellfish collapses linked to ocean acidification.