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How to avoid letting Chipotle’s depressing new ad brainwash you
Reforming our food system will taste way better than a burrito bowl. I KNOW. But it's possible.
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Hawaii molasses spill less delicious, more disastrous than it sounds
The molasses is sucking the oxygen out of the water, suffocating fish, and then the decaying fish are making the situation worse.
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Golden apple or forbidden fruit? Following the money on GMOs
Surprise! When it comes to assessing who benefits the most from gene-splicing technology in food farming -- corporations? farmers? us? -- there's no consensus.
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Tar-sands oil could be coming soon to New England
But a small citizens group in Maine is pushing a ballot initiative that could undermine ExxonMobil and Enbridge's pipeline plan.
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Ask Umbra: Which carbon-offset programs are best?
A reader wants to atone for sins against the climate. Umbra helps her avoid a little fire and brimstone.
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Monsanto ponies up and Big Ag pulls ahead in GMO labeling horse race
DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto drop late-breaking millions into the campaign against a Washington state ballot initiative to label GMOs.
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America warming up to new hydropower
The Obama administration is pushing to install hydropower plants at existing dams, which could boost U.S. hydropower capacity by 15 percent.
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Explained in 90 seconds: Your fridge is accelerating climate change — but it doesn’t have to
HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases. They're also the low-hanging fruit in the fight against global warming.
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Big biz fights Obama admin’s calculations on carbon costs
America's biggest and dirtiest industries say the government shouldn't try to tally up the climate-related costs of fossil-fuel burning.
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ExxonMobil company charged with fracking-related crimes
Pennsylvania is going after the company for spilling frackwater into a river. The company responds with Orwellian logic, arguing that the case will "discourage good environmental practices."
