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Three Mile Island nuclear station
A pair of legal actions against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission raises fresh questions over how and where to store the nation's growing nuclear waste
President Obama has won wide bipartisan support for his determination to revive American nuclear...
Mar 3, 2011 | Read More
Welcome to South Dakota highway sign
TransCanada has qualified as a 'common carrier' in the states along Keystone XL, a designation that has stumped some attorneys, advocates and observers
Editor's Note: In this three-part series, SolveClimate News examines how landowners along the six-...
Mar 2, 2011 | Read More
Elementary school building
Participation from schools in the government's 'Energy Star' program shot up last year to include 130 districts, up from 54 in 2009, and just six in 2005
Facing budget squeezes, America's school districts have found new resolve to conserve energy and...
Mar 1, 2011 | Read More
Rural Montana
Some U.S. landowners along the Keystone XL route say they are being 'pushed around' and 'intimidated' by TransCanada, an accusation the energy giant denies
Editor's Note: In this three-part series, SolveClimate News examines how landowners along the six-...
Mar 1, 2011 | Read More
TransCanada has gathered easements to use the property of 5,354 landowners along the oil pipeline's route. Some in Oklahoma are among the last holdouts
Editor's Note: In this three-part series, SolveClimate News examines how landowners along the six-...
Feb 28, 2011 | Read More
Swimming polar bear
Near the top of the Arctic food web, polar bears and ice seals are facing dire pressures from heat-trapping industrial gases
In the Arctic, ringed seals and other ice-associated pinnipeds aren't merely the polar bear's prey...
Feb 27, 2011 | Read More
Truck with smoke coming out of tailpipe
EPA 's budget eliminates a $60 million program to curb soot, as UN scientists report that tackling such pollutants is key to fighting climate change
WASHINGTON—Environmental organizations weren't feeling any love on Valentine's Day when the White...
Feb 25, 2011 | Read More
Scientist with seal
A fishing ban against Arctic cod may forestall trouble for the bottom of the food web. Higher up, seals are already disappearing from lack of snow and ice
The Arctic Ocean is so cold that only a handful of fish and marine mammals can survive there....
Feb 24, 2011 | Read More
Kentucky coal plant
Kentucky's EPA-bashing is overshadowing its efforts to pursue cleaner energy, in the face of its almost complete reliance on coal
Kentucky is heading toward its energy future paddling in opposite directions. Some lawmakers want...
Feb 24, 2011 | Read More
Meling ice
The loss of a single species from climate change impacts could set off a reaction throughout the entire Arctic marine and coastal food web
On a Saturday morning in late November in Kotzebue, Alaska, a village 33 miles north of the Arctic...
Feb 23, 2011 | Read More