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What’s Wrong With the New Climate Bill

First, the good news: One of the most comprehensive pieces of energy and climate legislation ever drafted by members… more

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Rethinking the Future

Fossil fuels can't last forever. A new book plans for a world without them.

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Salt of the Earth

Bolivia extracts its lithium, environment be damned.

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Modern-Day Monkeywrencher

During the final days of the Bush administration, Tim DeChristopher's civil disobedience drew attention to a rushed federal auction for Utah drilling rights.

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Global Warming Accelerates

As sea levels rise faster than expected, political and social catastrophes loom.

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Resource Wars in Ecuador

Indigenous people accuse President Rafael Correa of selling out to mining interests.

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Our Town vs. Exxon

Marine biologist Riki Ott explains how Cordova, Alaska, rebounded 20 years after the oil spill.

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Green Jobs for Whom?

Obama must ensure that the green economy provides a living wage and opportunity for all.

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Monsanto Beets Down Opposition

Environmental and public health groups are suing the USDA to stop the planting of Roundup Ready-proof GMO sugar beets

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Paving the Road to Hell

Find the common thread and win a free Prozac prescription: Treating cattle for lameness and fever drives vultures to… more

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Toilet Ecology

The Big Necessity argues toilets and sewers are the key to improved sanitation. But reality is more complex - and toxic

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Wastewater Ski Slopes

A battle over sacred lands could be heading to the U.S. Supreme Court

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A Textbook Case

AP students learn ABCs of right-wing talking points

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Piling it High

The sewage sludge industry meets the light of day

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Acid-Mining Michigan

Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott plans to develop a nickel sulfide mine beneath the fragile Salmon Trout River in the state's Upper Peninsula

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Corporate Potluck

Dietitians and their company sponsors make strange buffet fellows

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When Protectors Become Predators

Perhaps the greatest danger to endangered species is the Bush administration

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Air Polluters Sail the High Seas

The environmental law firm EarthJustice, Friends of the Earth and other advocacy groups are taking action to compel the EPA to set comprehensive restrictions on the air pollution that clouds U.S. harbors

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Saving a Public Park

Benton Harbor citizens fight to stop Whirlpool's luxury golf course

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Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change

Don't judge a climate cure by its color. Give it a rub, and you'll find that the term 'biofuels' is actually obscuring an insidious reality

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Lobbying for Cancer

Corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on public-health research

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Tobacco Stains

The global footprint of a deadly crop

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Burned by Flame Retardants

The EPA does almost nothing to regulate the PBDEs we Americans eat, absorb and breath every day

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A Freegan World

Hundreds of urban activists, combining the words "free" and "vegan" have set out to change the way we think and act

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Scorned on the Bayou

Louisianans fear a new plan to restore costal wetlands could destroy their way of life

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Climate Change Refugees

As large areas of the planet become unsuitable for human life, the sad stream of climate refugees will become a torrent

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Offsets Aren’t Enough

Two environmental groups cave in to Big Coal in Texas.

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Farming the Concrete Jungle

In cities across the country urban farmers are growing communities, greening the landscape and revolutionizing food politics.

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Sins of Omission

As the FAA seeks to expand air travel, is it giving concerns about aviation's effects on climate change the attention they deserve?

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The Not-So Superfund

Congress lets fund to hold companies responsible for cleaning up their pollution run dry

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Rocking Out To Our Demise

It'll take more than outdoor concerts to stop global warming

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Two Degrees From Devastation

George Monbiot's book Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning argues that we must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent

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The Plight of New Orleans Workers

Hands hired to clean up the Big Easy have been subjected to wage theft, exposure to dangerous substances, layoffs, tough discipline and discrimination

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The Battle for the Air

The EPA will decide today whether to strengthen its smog standards

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Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville

Multinational polluter Rio Tinto sued under Alien Tort Claims Act for causing deaths of 10,000 Papua New Guineans

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Sacred Lands, Sewer Snow

American Indians fight to stop an Arizona ski resort from making snow out of sewage water.

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Global Warming: Dim Bulbs, Bright Lights

People who want to save the Earth from the ravages of global warming face a perennial problem: How do… more

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Biofuels: Promise or Peril?

The answer depends on how governments regulate the industry

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Uncle Sam Wants Sustainability

In January, Conscious Choice, a Chicago urban lifestyle magazine released "The Chicago Green Report Card." Examining Mayor Richard J.… more

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This April Red + Blue Go Green

Everyone's got a metaphor, and ours was the potluck dinner. If we were going to build a climate change… more

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