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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.
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The carbon time bomb in your retirement account
A new financial tool lets Wall Street calculate the climate-change risk of investments.
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Dairy accidents spilled a million gallons of crap in Wisconsin this year
This is the kind of pollution that causes green slime in the Great Lakes and dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The U.K. government really, really wants to encourage fracking
The Tories are offering big tax breaks to fracking companies. Meanwhile, anti-fracking protesters get rowdy in Romania.
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Six good reasons to watch the Supreme Court’s interstate air pollution case
The court this week is hearing arguments about an EPA clean air rule -- a big deal for enviros, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and any Americans who like to breathe freely.
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The world’s greenest oil company?
France's Total is hedging against a low-carbon future by investing in solar and biofuels.
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The Gates Foundation’s hypocritical investments
ExxonMobil, Walmart, and McDonald's are just a few of the companies that the mega-charity supports.
