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July 17, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Wildfires Are Raging Around the Country—There's a Better Way to Fight Them
July 15, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Fracking Is Setting Earthquake Records in Oklahoma, Scientists Say. Is a Big One Coming?
July 9, 2014
Rebecca Leber
This Is the Most Absurd Climate-Change Denial Yet
A Kentucky lawmaker claims Mars disproves global warming on Earth
July 7, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Congress Can't Stop Obama's Coal Regulations at Home, So It's Helping Dirty Plants Abroad
July 2, 2014
Rebecca Leber
No, the EPA Isn't Waging War on the Fourth of July
But fireworks can do real damage to humans and the environment
June 30, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Our Air Hasn't Been This Bad in at Least 800,000 Years
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been at record levels for three months now. Welcome to the new normal.
June 17, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Obama Looks to Beat Bush's Marine Legacy With World's Largest Ocean Sanctuary
June 16, 2014
Rebecca Leber
House Republicans Are So Mad at the EPA that They Might Force Another Shutdown
June 16, 2014
Alex Halperin
Big Wind Is Better Than Big Oil, But Just as Bad at P.R.
June 2, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
Obama's Climate Plan Will Only Reduce Global Emissions by 1%
June 2, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Why Enviros Are Saying Such Nice Things About the New EPA Rules
May 23, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
The Truth About Stanford's Coal Divestment
May 9, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
The Climate Change Report Is Full of Scientific Equivocations
We know the climate is changing globally. We don't really know what will happen in your town.
May 6, 2014
Danny Vinik
Why Doesn't the Big New Government Report Tell Us How Much Climate Change Will Hurt the Economy?
April 22, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
The Politics of Climate Change Stink. That's Why 'Think Globally, Act Locally' Is Back
April 15, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Read My Lips: More New Taxes!
A bigger April 15 bill would mean a better society
March 28, 2014
Emmett Rensin
Bill Nye, the Climate Guy
A kids' TV star is liberals' most effective spokesman against right-wing science skeptics
March 13, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
The Proportion of Young Americans Who Drive Has Plummeted—And No One Knows Why
March 11, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Fukushima Fearmongers
What unites the left and right: a radioactive plume headed for the West Coast
March 7, 2014
Lew Daly, Sean McElwee
Natural Gas Will Not Save the U.S. Economy
We're racking up environmental debt, and still borrowing more

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