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Big corporations are getting ready for carbon taxes, even if we’re not
You know it's bad when oil companies see the light on carbon taxing before the tax-collectors do.
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Triple threat: Obama orders federal agencies to boost clean energy use threefold
As part of his climate plan, the president cleans up his own house by calling on the federal government to use more renewable electricity.
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Will Your Tax Dollars Fund a Highway that’s a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in Disguise?
Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal […]
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Could you sue Chevron or Exxon for screwing up the climate?
We now know the precise extent to which big fossil-fuel companies are responsible for climate change, but U.S. courts are slower to assign blame.
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Climate sneak attack: New report predicts sudden changes
Like a good movie villain, climate change may have more nasty surprises in store.
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Grist wants to give you this Nest
That’s right, Grist is going to give five lucky readers a Nest Learning Thermostat.
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Auto destruct: How Detroit went bankrupt, and how it could rise again
Detroit has always represented the America we aren't comfortable with. Maybe it now has a chance to shake off our projected dreams and nightmares.
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India’s Dangerous ‘Food Bubble’
By Lester R. Brown India is now the world’s third-largest grain producer after China and the United States. The adoption of higher-yielding crop varieties and the spread of irrigation have […]
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Native American groups increasingly at the center of fights over oil and gas
There's a lot of natural gas and oil to be found on or near tribal lands. Will indigenous people go along with drilling and pipeline plans, or fight them?
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How scientists are using drones to fight the next big oil spill
Drones and sensors deployed off the Florida coast will help predict the impact of the next Deepwater Horizon, if there has to be a next one.