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Golden apple or forbidden fruit? Following the money on GMOs
Surprise! When it comes to assessing who benefits the most from gene-splicing technology in food farming -- corporations? farmers? us? -- there's no consensus.
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Tar-sands oil could be coming soon to New England
But a small citizens group in Maine is pushing a ballot initiative that could undermine ExxonMobil and Enbridge's pipeline plan.
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Ask Umbra: Which carbon-offset programs are best?
A reader wants to atone for sins against the climate. Umbra helps her avoid a little fire and brimstone.
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Monsanto ponies up and Big Ag pulls ahead in GMO labeling horse race
DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto drop late-breaking millions into the campaign against a Washington state ballot initiative to label GMOs.
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America warming up to new hydropower
The Obama administration is pushing to install hydropower plants at existing dams, which could boost U.S. hydropower capacity by 15 percent.
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Explained in 90 seconds: Your fridge is accelerating climate change — but it doesn’t have to
HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases. They're also the low-hanging fruit in the fight against global warming.
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Big biz fights Obama admin’s calculations on carbon costs
America's biggest and dirtiest industries say the government shouldn't try to tally up the climate-related costs of fossil-fuel burning.
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ExxonMobil company charged with fracking-related crimes
Pennsylvania is going after the company for spilling frackwater into a river. The company responds with Orwellian logic, arguing that the case will "discourage good environmental practices."
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Let’s fight the 1 percent — of power plants
Nearly 1 percent of U.S. power plants -- 50 of them, all fueled by coal -- produce 30 percent of the power sector's CO2 pollution.
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Hay contaminated with Monsanto GMOs rejected for export
A Washington farmer grew a GMO-free crop of alfalfa, but an exporter wouldn't take it because it appeared to have been tainted by the genetically modified variety.
