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Climate Change
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As Exxon Cleans Up Arkansas Oil Spill, Keystone Plan Assailed
Exxon's Pegasus Pipeline has drenched the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, in heavy Canadian crude.
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Tar Sands Pipeline Ruptures, Spreading Oil Across Arkansas Town
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has labeled the rupture as a "major spill."
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How ALEC Has Undermined Food Safety By Pushing ‘Ag Gag’ Laws Across The Country
ALEC is behind a recent rash of legislation that would prevent whistleblowers from exposing cruel or unsafe practices.
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Fracking Spurred Biggest Earthquake Yet
The magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Prague, Okla., in 2011 may also be the largest ever linked to wastewater injection, which is drastically increasing due to the recent boom in U.S. energy production.
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The Price of Carbon
We are all paying the price of carbon pollution. It's time to put a price on carbon.
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Go Fossil Free: The Campaign
We’re launching the next phase of our fossil fuel divestment campaign aimed at government, religious denominations, museums, foundations -- anyone investing in the destruction of the future, we’re asking them to sell those shares.
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Exposed: Frackademics at USC Release "Powering California" Study
Frackademia—shorthand for bogus science, economics and research results paid for by the oil and gas industry—has struck again in California, this time touting the future of Monterey's shale deposits.
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Canadian and U.S. Native People Vow to Block Oil Pipelines
An alliance of Canadian and U.S. aboriginal groups vowed last week to block three multibillion-dollar oil pipelines that are planned to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands.
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The Great Garbage Patch of the Pacific
When you can scoop up in our oceans more plastic than biomass, it's time to recognize that we may have a problem.
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Two Years On, Will the Lessons of Fukushima Go Unheeded?
Seventy percent of Japan's population wants a nuclear-free future but the government is ignoring their demands, even as experts give cleanup operations at Fukushima a centuries-long timetable.