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Outrage: As mountaintop removal linked to birth defects, politicians gut Clean Water Act
I just can’t stop thinking about a new scientific study published this week that found there are “significantly higher” rates of birth defects near mountaintop removal coal mining operations As […]
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What ever happened to the party of national security?
This OnEarth column was written by George Black. I don’t spend a lot of time listening to Rush Limbaugh. But driving through Wyoming recently, I chanced upon his distinctive cadences […]
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Some in the US need to stop opposing the EU program to control carbon pollution from aviation
On Wednesday June 22, the US and European Union (EU) officials will meet in Oslo, Norway for a bilateral on aviation issues. As a part of this meeting they will […]
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Growing Goat Herds Signal Global Grassland Decline
After the earth was created, soil formed slowly over geological time from the weathering of rocks. It began to support early plant life, which protected and enriched it until it […]
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Much ado about nothing
There was plenty of excitement earlier this month when AEP – one of the nation’s largest energy companies – announced that it would phase out five coal-fired power plants and […]
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The Afghan Price
Earlier this year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke about discovering that truckloads of single-use plastic shopping bags imported into his war-torn nation were squandering precious resources of fuel while risking […]
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Top five coolest ways to integrate renewable energy into the grid
Here's 5 methods for integrating renewable energy into the grid -- proving that intermittency isn't the showstopper critics make it out to be.
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German rooftop solar price *averages* less than $4 per watt
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. Earlier this spring I shared a graphic illustrating the dramatic fall in […]
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Tim DeChristopher chats with Ask Umbra
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher will take questions from Grist readers today at 3 pm EDT in a live chat -- just days before his federal sentencing.
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A Powerful March on Blair Mountain
“There will come a time, I know, when people will take delight in one another, when each will be a star to the other, and when each will listen to […]
