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Get off my lawn! Organic farmers just can’t get along with GMO-growing neighbors
A new survey finds that organic farmers in the U.S. incur significant financial losses due to GMO contamination from nearby farms.
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You can thank Warren Buffett for many of those exploding oil trains
His Berkshire Hathaway investment group owns many of the flimsy rail cars used to transport oil, and it has vigorously fought tighter regulation.
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How to make natural gas more climate-friendly
There are easy steps the gas industry could take to plug methane leaks, but they probably won't do it until the EPA makes them.
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That old, rusty underwater pipeline? Nothing to worry about!
Michiganders are loudly voicing their concerns about a 60-year-old oil pipeline that runs along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac.
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Apple CEO says he doesn’t want stockholders who don’t believe in climate change
A right-wing think tank tried to tell Tim Cook to dump Apple's green initiatives. He basically flipped them off. (Take THAT!)
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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.
