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  • The unholy alliance against subprime carbon

    Conservative Republicans and environmentalists have finally found something to agree on: Cap-and-trade is evil
  • Horses to the slaughter

    U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend?
  • One brief shining moment for clean energy

    Passage of the first climate bill in the House is a big first step to cut global warming. But it's not enough
  • Another day, another self-defeating energy bill compromise

    Stopping climate change won't be easy if everybody who squawks gets a free pass
  • God, He's moody

    In an interview with something to offend everyone, Robert Wright explains why religion has given us a fickle deity
  • Land of the lost global warming skeptics

    Does Will Ferrell have any idea that there is a subversive climate change subplot in his movie?
  • Is Steven Chu too much of a techno-geek?

    Rolling Stone accuses the Energy Secretary of having "excessive faith" in technology. But why not?
  • Why we can't eat just one

    We do it for the buzz. Like drug addicts. How do we stop the constant craving?
  • Auto safety for dummies

    Critics who whine Obama is outlawing big cars for dangerous compacts are riding shotgun with empty barrels.
  • New oil industry scheme: Girls, girls, girls!

    Worried about upcoming energy legislation, the flacks come up with a fool-proof plan. Lipstick!
  • Big Pharma says your mysterious pain is real

    A brain scan told them so. And now they can sell you a drug. But what is unreal pain?
  • Climate change: The poor get poorer

    Hotter temperatures equal lower economic growth. Except not in rich countries.
  • Don't flush that fertilizer!

    Normal ecosystems use and reuse critical nutrients like phosphorus. But humans aren't normal
  • Greenpeace's secret anti-palm oil agenda

    Concern about climate change is just cover for a plot to crush upstart Asian competitors to Western fuel companies
  • The seldom-seen devastation of climate change

    A NASA climatologist explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic.
  • Deadly heat

    A controversial report from Kofi Annan's group says global warming is killing hundreds of thousands a year.
  • Don't judge the chemo kid

    Those who have been through the living hell of cancer treatment understand the Hausers' decision to run away
  • Electric cars are coming!

    We're sorry to be buzz kills. But we've heard this one before. Like in 1990. And 1910. Do the automakers have the juice this time?
  • Obama puts the fuel economy pedal to the metal

    Bush never stopped fighting California's proposed rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Fut for the new administration, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
  • Pesticides indicted in bee deaths

    Agriculture officials have renewed their scrutiny of the world's best-selling pest-killer as they try to solve the mysterious collapse of the nation's hives.
  • Oprah's bad medicine

    Given her influence, it's a shame the TV star offers unbalanced health and medical advice.
  • The geek in charge at the Department of Energy

    Speaking at MIT, Steven Chu finds an audience that understands him a little better than the jokers on Capitol Hill.
  • Did the White House just declare climate change war on itself?

    A mysterious memo supposedly prepared by the Office of Management and Budget savagely attacks the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases are a pollutant.
  • A judge without empathy is inhuman

    The anti-Obama rallying cry that a Supreme Court justice must rule by reason alone is ignorant of how our minds and bodies work.
  • Obama the polar bear killer

    Where's the outrage, hollers Bush's press secretary. Why isn't the new president castigated for failing to use the Endangered Species Act to stop climate change?
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