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Sudsed: The FDA steps down a long road toward banning antibacterial hand soap
Will this happen? We won't know for three years. Would it be a good thing? Yes.
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Right-wingers and dirty energy corporations secretly spending mega-millions on climate denial
Looks like the Koch brothers, ExxonMobil, et al. are now funneling their climate-denier funding through innocuous-sounding foundations.
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California is giving Tesla another huge tax break. Good move
Luxury electric-car maker Tesla is getting a $34.7 billion tax break from California.
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Chicago cracks down on piles of tar-sands waste
After months of citizens complaining about petcoke blowing into their neighborhoods, Mayor Rahm Emanual is forcing shipping terminals to clean up their acts.
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China launches world’s second-biggest carbon-trading market
Europe, watch your back.
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Why do Virginians want to drill off their own coast?
After Deepwater Horizon, you might think people wouldn't want offshore rigs anywhere nearby. But Virginians, like other Americans, hold contradictory views on energy issues.
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Northern Gateway tar-sands pipeline gets crucial government blessing
Enbridge's proposal to pipe oil from Alberta to Canada's west coast got an OK from a key national panel, but plenty of other hurdles remain.
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Iceland’s cars could soon run on volcano power
Iceland is sitting atop a bubbling pool of geothermal energy.
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Big food companies want to call GMO foods “natural”
Environmentalists and food safety advocates, as you might expect, are not fans of the idea.
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Bankrupt fracking firm suing New York governor to end moratorium
Norse Energy sucks at its core business of drilling for oil and gas, so it's taken to suing officials and governments who've limited fracking.
