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Quick, change the channel! Al Jazeera is talking about the environment again
While most American TV networks are ignoring climate change, Al Jazeera America is taking climate and environmental issues seriously.
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India plans world’s biggest solar project, but money is a hurdle
The solar array would be larger than Manhattan and cost $4.4 billion. India is hitting up the World Bank for a great big loan to get it started.
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Duke Energy belatedly pledges to overhaul coal-ash storage, after destroying river
Enviros have been pushing for years to get the company to clean up its act. All it took was an environmental disaster.
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Food giants try to hijack GMO-labeling issue
They're banding together to quash state-level labeling campaigns, pushing instead for national labeling standards -- but only voluntary ones.
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The brutal cost of a cheap chicken
Two new books detail the inner workings of our factory-style poultry and meat system -- and the long history of our love/hate relationship with it.
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Frackers are guzzling water in drought-plagued areas
Most of the fracking underway in the U.S. is occurring in regions that are experiencing water stress.
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A Big Oil foe runs for Congress — as a Republican
Monte Shaw, head of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, hates Big Oil, which is refreshing -- but he loves the ethanol industry, which is not so refreshing.
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Pennsylvania to start fracking sensitive state forestland
Nearly half of Pennsylvania's shale-rich state forests have been leased to frackers. The state's Republican governor thinks that's not enough.
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Duke Energy’s coal-ash spill has utterly ruined a river
The Dan River in North Carolina has been turned into gray sludge -- and Duke Energy still hasn't figured out how to stop the leak.
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Hundreds of scientists urge EPA to reject Pebble Mine
A proposed gold and copper mine near Alaska’s fish-rich Bristol Bay would be a terrible idea, 360 scientists say in a letter to the EPA.