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Can we save Chesapeake Bay from chicken crap?
A bill in Maryland would make poultry producers pay five cents a bird to help protect the bay from chicken-waste runoff.
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Is fracking pollution deforming babies?
Infants born near fracking sites in Colorado were found to suffer from elevated rates of congenital heart defects and neural tube defects.
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Step right up, Big Coal, for America’s Big Coal Giveaway
It's bad enough that the U.S. leases out so many coal tracts. Even worse is that it does so at way-below-market prices, as a new report confirms.
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Compare time and cost of every possible transportation option with a single app
Whatever your favorite travel app is, RideScout probably has it beat.
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Coal plant accident spews coal ash into North Carolina river
Just last month, Duke Energy insisted there was no reason to clean up its coal-ash piles. Oops.
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Future near perfect: How humans can still save the day by 2050
In "The World We Made," green guru Jonathon Porritt writes of a future where we fix the planet with renewable energy, smart food systems, and jetpacks. Bonus: It's all possible. (Except maybe the jetpacks.)
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Teslas drive L.A. to N.Y. in three days, guzzle no gas
Never mind the snow and sleet -- a pair of Tesla Model S electric sedans just made it across the country in 76 hours.
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Shell will stay out of the Arctic this year
Shell announced it won't attempt to drill for oil in the Arctic this year -- and that it's "considering its options" in the region.
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Ask Umbra: How can I be sure my recycling gets … recycled?
A reader is suspicious that her co-mingle is getting hauled to the landfill. Umbra does a little sleuthing.
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Anti-fracking activist barred from 312.5 square miles of Pennsylvania
The court injunction brought in by an oil and gas company makes even supermarkets off-limits for Vera Scroggins
