Fueling the needs of biofuel factories could mean growing fields of 30-foot-tall grass, but no one’s positive it will stay where it’s told.
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Is the CIA on Its Way to Hacking the Sky?
Human manipulation of the climate might be the quickest way to combat global warming. It’s also the most frightening.
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Slow and Steady Wins the Anti-Keystone XL Race
The southern end of the tar-sands pipeline is mostly completed, but the opposition is just getting started.
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Burgers from the Future
The first lab-grown meat has arrived. It’s got a way to go.
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Progressives’ Post-DOMA To-Do List
The left hasn’t exhausted its victories on last week’s landmark same-sex marriage gains. There are still many fights with logical—and achievable—next steps.
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Stephen Colbert vs. BP CEO Tony Hayward
The Colbert Nation host takes the director of the British oil-giant to task for the company’s response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Spill-a repsonse Colbert considers woefully inadequate. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive
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The Danger in Our Water Supply
A dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces as much waste as Miami. FairWarning investigates how that puts our water supply in danger.
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A River Runs Through It
Everyone agrees that the only way to fix the Gulf of Mexico dead zone—the largest off the United States—is to fix the Mississippi, but not everyone agrees how.
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I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore, Keystone
Why did the tar-sands pipeline become the hot issue in a Massachusetts primary election thousands of miles away from where it might be built?
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Don’t Give Up on Green Tech Yet
Fisker Automotive may not be doing so well, even after its Department of Energy loan, but on the whole the government has a good—and necessary—track record on electric cars.
