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Barry Commoner’s Legacy
The visionary environmentalist’s four rules of ecology remain urgent and true.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Corn, Corn Everywhere, But Not a Bite to Eat
Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture released a report on the state of the country’s corn, and the verdict is not good. The report-the first that estimates production based on surveying the fields of U.S. farmers-shows that farmers are on track to produce 10.8 billion bushels of corn this year, a 17 percent […]
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Keystone XL’s Beetlemania
How an endangered species barely an inch long could be a big barrier to TransCanada’s pipeline dreams.
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Mitt Romney Passes Wind
What happens when the preferences of the economic base meet the preferences of the ideological base?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Farmers Without Water
George Naylor, a corn and soybean farmer, talks with the Prospect about the drought.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Farm Bill on Life Support as Drought Worsens
This month, the House agriculture committee finished its work on the farm bill-a massive piece of legislation that sets policy on everything from government subsidies to food stamps. Even though the Senate had passed its version of the farm bill, which must be reauthorized every five years, no one expected House Majority Leader John Boehner […]
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Digging for China
A fight against planned coal-export terminals in the Pacific Northwest is becoming the next big climate battle.
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Giving Local Food the Raspberry
The Locavore’s Dilemma takes aim at the sustainability movement, ignoring the broader problems plaguing our food system.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Judges Take On Climate Skeptics
The D.C. Court of Appeals released an opinion last week that protects the EPA’s greenhouse-gas regulation from the scorn of those who protest climate-change prevention.
