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6 things Obama can do on climate without Congress
There's still a lot POTUS can do.
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RNAi: Chatroom acronym? Nope — it’s the next generation of GMOs
It will save the world! It will destroy the world! That's how the debate over the latest bug-killer GMO is likely to unfold. A New York Times piece offers a more down-to-earth assessment.
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Send up the white smoke — we have a farm bill!
After two years of wrangling, congressional negotiators think they have a farm bill that can pass -- with food aid cuts that aren't as deep as previous versions.
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Why the climate needs its own Tea Party
When Republicans dare to lean green, they get chastised and challenged. When Democrats decide to screw over the planet, nothing happens.
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Tinfoiled again: Why Donald Trump’s climate conspiracy theory doesn’t hold up
He apparently believes in a global cabal of conniving scientists.
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Who’s Your Energy Daddy?
For now it remains large, investor-owned utilities, and ostensibly locally-focused rural cooperatives and municipal utilities. But the energy landscape of today gives me uncomfortable reminders of the Athenian tragedy by Sophocles […]
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Meet Monsanto’s newest vegetables
They sound like science fiction, but they're based in farming techniques as old as ... well, pretty much as old as civilization.
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Want proof evolution is real? Just look at creationism
From invoking astrology to legally defining "destiny," the attacks on evolution and climate science just keep on … evolving.
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Christie administration stiffed blacks and Latinos on Sandy relief money
New data shows that African Americans were more than twice as likely as whites to be rejected, while Latinos were rejected at 50 percent higher rates.
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Poll finds that Latinos overwhelmingly support climate action
A new survey finds that Latinos are concerned about global warming, and regardless of their income or party affiliation, they want progress.
