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Millions Without Power As Sandy Makes Landfall

Sandy hit the East Coast on Monday and knocked out power for millions of people. Utility companies face major challenges to get power back online after the massive storm.

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Loophole Lets Toxic Oil Water Flow Over Indian Land

The air reeks so strongly of rotten eggs that tribal leader Wes Martel hesitates to get out of the car at an oil field on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. He already has a headache from the fumes...

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Texas Man Takes Last Stand Against Keystone XL Pipeline

An east Texas landowner was so determined to block the Keystone XL pipeline from coming through his forest that he took to his trees and built an elaborate network of treehouses eight stories above the...

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Deep In Canadian Lakes, Signs Of Tar Sands Pollution

Canadian researchers have used the mud at the bottom of lakes like a time machine to show that tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada, is polluting remote regional lakes as far as 50 miles from...

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Coal Loses Crown As King Of Power Generation

Just a few years ago, Georgia Power generated nearly three-fourths of its electricity with coal. Last year, for the first time, natural gas edged out coal, and just this week the company announced...

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Understanding Climate Change, With Help From Thoreau

Modern scientists trying to understand climate change are engaged in an unlikely collaboration — with two beloved but long-dead nature writers: Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold.The authors of...

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In Second Inaugural, Obama Makes Climate A Priority

President Obama pulled out a surprise in his inaugural address on Monday. After barely mentioning climate change in his campaign, he put it on his short list of priorities for his second term."We will...

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Protesters Call On Obama To Reject Keystone XL Pipeline

Tens of thousands of protesters turned out on the National Mall Sunday to encourage President Obama to make good on his commitment to act on climate change.In his Inaugural address from outside the...

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After Keystone Review, Environmentalists Vow To Continue Fight

Environmentalists have a hope.If they can block the Keystone XL pipeline, they can keep Canada from developing more of its dirty tar sands oil.

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Arkansas Oil Spill Sheds Light On Aging Pipeline System

Amber Bartlett was waiting last Friday for her kids to come home from school. One of them called from the entrance to the upscale subdivision near Little Rock, Ark., to tell her the community was being...

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Lionfish Attack The Gulf Of Mexico Like A Living Oil Spill

A gluttonous predator is power-eating its way through reefs from New York to Venezuela. It's the lionfish.And although researchers are coming up with new ways to protect some reefs from the flamboyant...

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College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists

At about 300 colleges across the country, young activists worried about climate change are borrowing a strategy that students successfully used in decades past. In the 1980s, students enraged about...

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Baton Rouge's Corroded, Overpolluting Neighbor: Exxon Mobil

If you stand in front of Almena and Sidney Poray's house in Baton Rouge, La., and look straight down the street, past the other houses and the shade trees, you see more than a dozen plumes of exhaust...

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EPA Building Named For Bill Clinton; He Says That's Fitting

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Nevada Wildfire Could Snuff Out A Rare Butterfly

A big wildfire in a mountain range just west of Las Vegas has put at risk the Mount Charleston blue butterfly, a rare species found in the U.S.The fire is dying down, but it may be weeks before experts...

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La. Flood Board Sues Oil Industry Over Wetlands

Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost roughly as much land as makes up the state of Delaware."If you put the state of Delaware between New Orleans and the ocean, we wouldn't need any levees at all," says...

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Sold! First Parcels Auctioned For Future Offshore Wind Farms

A Rhode Island company was the highest bidder in the federal government's first-ever auction for the right to build an offshore wind farm.After 11 rounds, Deepwater Wind outbid two other companies for...

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EPA Wants To Allow Continued Wastewater Dumping In Wyoming

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to let oil companies continue to dump polluted wastewater on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. This includes chemicals that companies add to the...

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The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

The electricity system is experiencing growing pains these days. But it's not only demand for electricity that's expanding — it's the sources of electricity, particularly unpredictable kinds, like wind...

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N. America's Oldest Known Petroglyphs Discovered In Nevada

Ancient North Americans gouged elaborate rock art into a heap of big boulders northeast of Reno, Nev., more than 10,000 years ago and perhaps 15,000 years ago.

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