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This bike could purify the air as you ride it
What if bikes could actually reverse pollution, instead of just not making it worse?
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Happily ever NAFTA: New trade pact could boost corporations and harm environment
Following in NAFTA's footsteps, new trade pacts like the Trans-Pacific Partnership could make it easy for foreign companies to sue the U.S. for enforcing its environmental rules.
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Miami vise: Rising seas put the squeeze on a sun-drenched beach town
In Miami Beach, high tides regularly flood streets with knee-deep seawater. The growing crisis, and the city’s response, hold lessons for seaside cities everywhere.
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Secondhand smoke: Why East Coast cities are still choking on Midwest pollution
When Midwestern states and their industrial friends sued over a new EPA rule, they got just what they wanted: to keep polluting, and poisoning, as long as possible.
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Dallas — yes, Dallas — bans fracking in most of the city
J.R. Ewing must be rolling in his grave. The third largest city in Texas will now prohibit fracking within 1,500 feet of a home or school.
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The billionaire boys’ club: How college students and Wall Street are thinking alike
College administrators may be giving divestment protesters the cold shoulder, but some Wall Street leaders are warming up to the idea of accurately pricing climate change.
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The southern half of Keystone XL is now filling up with oil
The fate of the northern leg of the Keystone pipeline is still up in the air, but the southern leg is now complete and will start delivering oil to refineries in January.
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Organic milk is better for your heart
New peer-reviewed research finds that organic milk has a near ideal balance of fatty acids, which could help protect you from heart disease. Nonorganic milk, not so much.
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Meet perfluorotributylamine, the world’s worst greenhouse gas
This bad boy is 7,100 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide, and it persists in the atmosphere for more than 500 years.
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Wind energy becoming cheaper than natural gas
In the blustery Midwest, power agreements with new wind farms are being signed for even less than gas plants. Wind is breathing down the necks of coal and nuclear too.
