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BP wants U.S. government to reduce court-ordered oil-spill payouts
BP says it shouldn't have to pay so much to help companies hurt by the Deepwater Horizon spill. It wants the U.K. government to ask the U.S. government for help.
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Huge tar-sands waste pile grows alongside Detroit River
Refining Canadian tar-sands oil creates mountains of filthy black waste, as the residents of Detroit are discovering. Other American communities can look forward to the same.
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Harvard researchers, on road to useful discoveries, instead make tiny chemical flowers
Scientists at Harvard can make teeny tiny flowers out of chemicals. No, they can't do the flowers for your wedding. Unless everyone you know is invisible to the naked eye, too.
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Green roofs don’t work unless you plant them with diverse, local plants
Planting your green roof with sedum is like hiring employees based on how long they can physically sit in an office chair instead of how good they are at doing the work.
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Undead farm bill: Everyone’s favorite legislative zombie shuffles on
Congress bakes up a ginormous gift to corporate ag, which may well collapse and die. But don’t start celebrating yet.
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Heady Colo. farmers plowing ahead with hemp farming
One Colorado farmer has planted the nation's first big industrial hemp crop in 60 years. Yes, it's still illegal.
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Utilities vs. rooftop solar: What the fight is about
Utilities are fighting with solar advocates over an obscure but important policy called "net metering." Here's what's at stake, and why it matters.
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This app helps you avoid supporting Monsanto and other terrible companies
Scan a product with Buycott, and it analyzes the insane web of corporate ownership in order to tell you exactly what terrible policies you'd be supporting if you bought that cereal.
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Obama administration gives wind industry a pass for killing birds
Wind turbines killed an estimated 83,000 birds of prey last year, yet the administration has never prosecuted a wind farm for killing a protected bird.
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Coal plants could be linked to thousands of North Carolina suicides
New research suggests that people in counties with coal-fired power plants are more likely to kill themselves.
