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Your tea won’t taste so good after you read this
Labor abuses, dangerous pesticide practices, and other problems are widespread at 24 Tetley tea plantations in India.
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Another day, another river ruined by a big coal-industry spill
This time it's a spill of 100,000 gallons of coal slurry from a coal processing facility in West Virginia. Thanks, Patriot Coal!
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The secret ingredient to slow food: Slow cash
Insight and advice from an expert in creative ways of making smart, sustainable farmers solvent, too.
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Dems and GOP have competing visions for making oil trains safer in Washington state
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are feeling nervous about soaring oil-by-rail traffic, but they disagree on what to do about it.
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BP found another shady way to cheat public, get richer
Minnesota is suing the oil giant, claiming it lied when taking state funds to clean up leaky tanks that were already covered by its insurers.
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Monster wind farm planned in South Dakota
More than 80 landowners are banding together and aiming big, working on a wind project that could produce up to a gigawatt of electricity.
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EPA is finally taking at least a small step to protect water supplies from fracking
The agency is now telling industry to be more careful when it pumps diesel underground as part of its cocktail of fracking fluids.
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Designer Vivienne Westwood thinks climate change is more important than the fashion industry
The legendary clothier says she's decided to stop her brand's expansion and that we've gotta halt climate change. Woot!
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How a pesticide company went after a frog-loving scientist
When Tyrone Hayes' research suggested that atrazine messed up amphibian reproductive organs, its manufacturer set out to "discredit" him.
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When it trains, it pours: The 10 worst oil-by-rail spills of the decade
We don't need no stinking pipeline to spill oil everywhere -- we have trains for that!
