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2014 was stuffed with good food news that you never heard about
While high-profile issues aroused inflexible rhetoric, the food movement made real progress this year in a handful of important but less prominent areas.
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Obama blows a chance to crack down on coal
With weak rules for coal ash, Obama has rewarded his enemies, screwed over his friends, and squandered an opportunity to move toward clean energy.
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This is the kind of climate bill Congress should pass (but won’t)
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Brian Schatz are pushing legislation to charge polluters for CO2 emissions and redistribute the revenue to the public.
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Eat less. Get healthy. Feed the world.
Whether you end up changing the world or just your own health, eating less is a great idea.
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Villains who poisoned W. Va. drinking water could end up behind bars
Indictments have come down for execs at the coal-"cleaning" company that contaminated the drinking water of 300,000 people.
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![U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question about the administration's new policy on Cuba after his end of the year press conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, December 19, 2014.]()
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Obama sounds like he’s about to reject the Keystone pipeline
The president said surprisingly smart -- and skeptical -- things about the proposed pipeline at a news conference on Friday.
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Is China’s demand for coal going to keep rising? Don’t bet on it
A report from the International Energy Agency suggests that demand will grow steadily for years. There are lots of good reasons to believe that's wrong.
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Dutch weedburgers won’t get you high, but they could save the planet
Sadly, these sliders are made of that other kind of weed: seaweed.
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You say mayo, I say mayonnaise, let’s call the lawsuit off
What's in a name? Unilever, maker of Hellmann's, drops its lawsuit against the maker of an alternative, dairy-free mayo.
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3 more reasons Seattle is stuck in a fustercluck
Seattle's ongoing transportation fiasco could not be contained in a single post.
