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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.
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Rice is the new cocaine for European drug dealers
Drug dealers are hanging up their dime bags and moving into the food-counterfeiting game.
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Frack-happy Colorado clamps down on methane pollution
Colorado will soon become the first state in the nation to regulate methane leaks from fracking operations and other natural gas companies.
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Big polluters tell Supreme Court they’re worried for Chinese restaurateurs
Major emitters claim to be concerned that the EPA could crack down on CO2 from millions of small businesses, even though the EPA has no intention of doing so.
