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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 Arent 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… 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… 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… more

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Resisting the War on Science

Sound science counts itself as one of the many victims of the Bush administration's assault on reason, and… more

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Rolling Back the Regs

Emissions limits on coal-fired power plants, endangered species protections that inhibit logging, and restrictions on chemicals in drinking… more

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Why are EPA Libraries Closing?

In February 2006, when President Bush unveiled his budget proposal for FY 2007, the EPA Library Network learned… more

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A Dark Night in Iceland

Environmentalists decry the privatization of their country's clean energy resources

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Bioneers Bridge the Color Gap

Bioneers, or Biological Pioneers, are activists committed to green consciousness, racial reconciliation, organic, healthy sustainable foods and social justice coalitions.

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The E. coli Free Market

The E. Coli outbreak is caused by the deregualtion and mass production of food by corporate agriculture's economies of scale.

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Filling the Void

With the federal government failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, many mayors are beginning to think globally and act locally.

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Chinas Growing Desert

Overgrazing is stripping arable lands, creating the potential for ecological refugees

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Cola Wars in Mexico

Tzotzil Indians in Mexico know the dangers of globalization and soda pop.

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Biofuel Challenges Big Oil

Biofuel corporations promise big benefits, but environmentalists have their doubts

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Meat-Industrial Complex

How factory farms undercut public health

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Talking Trash

How much needless plastic packaging do you throw away every year? Why is it cheaper to buy a… more

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No Discounted Transit for Oil

As part of a broad PR campaign this winter, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered discounted home heating… more

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When Red Goes Green

A burgeoning Chinese environmental movement tries to stem the devastation wrought by the country's massive economic transformation.

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