Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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Um, TransCanada just bought off a town with a firetruck
In exchange for a new rescue truck, the town of Mattawa agreed to not to comment on any of TransCanada's operations for the next five years.
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Rats! Rodent poison kills hawks, too
A grassroots movement in California begins to make headway in a fight to protect rat-eating hawks from rodenticides.
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One judge’s smackdown of a Colorado coal mine could help fight carbon projects everywhere
A coal mine expansion snags on the 'social cost of carbon protocol' — a boring bit of legalese that could one day prove invaluable in the climate fight.
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Is this pipeline company ready for some whale hazing?
If an expanded pipeline in Canada threatens migrating whales in the Pacific with an oil spill, the energy company in charge knows just what to do.