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NYC’s public transit system will raise fares — because what choice does it have?
The hike may be less regressive than you'd assume.
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California releases draft rules for regulating fracking
The state doesn't seem to be very worried about earthquakes, though.
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Caught on video: Mudslide from rain-soaked hill derails freight train
Luckily, the train wasn't carrying anything too toxic. But is this a preview?
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Markese Bryant: From the mean streets to the green economy
When he was 20, Bryant was arrested for selling crack cocaine. Today, he's fighting to give African American youth opportunities that he never had.
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Walmart bribed its way around Mexico’s environmental rules
Millions in illegal payments paved the way for new Walmart stores in environmentally fragile and congested areas south of the border.
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An oil spill at a bird sanctuary caps Staten Island’s terrible year
Knock on wood, anyway.
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By 2017, the world will be burning enough coal for another U.S. and Russia
Burning all that additional coal will add some 3.4 billion tons of additional carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year.
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Will the FDA keep hiding most data on farm antibiotic use?
The FDA has been protecting big agriculture's trade secrets and ignoring the public's right to know.
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Coal museum installs solar panels to save money (obviously)
Because coal belongs in a museum, and solar panels belong on roofs.
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Soot pollution may cause as many as 3.2 million premature deaths a year
Which is why efforts to reduce particulate pollution as a vital public health issue.
