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Green Room
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The Fukushima Question
How close did Japan really get to a widespread nuclear disaster?
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Rise of the Pitchforkers
Can a group of protesters waving farm implements bring about new rules for pesticide use?
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"Warning: This Car Is Inefficient"
Could having better labels help out the environment?
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Permission To Pollute
A town on the Kansas prairie finds itself fighting not only a local cement plant, but the EPA.
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Kashmir's Raging Rivers
Can India and Pakistan overcome decades of mistrust to save the Indus Waters Treaty?
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How To Spark a Right-Wing Frenzy
My one-minute YouTube clip of Al Gore was a conservative-media sensation. Here's why I took it down.
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Monitoring the Monitors
Who's still tracking radiation from Fukushima? And who should we trust?
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Plastic by Any Other Name
Coke and Pepsi's plant-based bottles still damage the environment.
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Biodegradable Envelope, Please
How did readers do on Slate's energy consumption quiz?
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Nuclear Inertia
How do nuclear accidents affect nuclear power-plant construction? I built a giant database to find out.
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Take Slate's Energy Quiz!
Do you know how much energy common household appliances consume?
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The Devil We Know
What backpedaling on nuclear power would mean for the rest of U.S. energy policy.
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Rooftop Pipe-Dream
Be wary of the booming market for pint-sized, roof-mounted windmills.
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The Little Green Pill
How can we make pharmaceutical drugs less toxic to the environment?
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The Great Wall of India
India is fencing off its border with Bangladesh. What will that mean for millions of potential climate refugees?
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The Good Fight
Evangelical environmentalists are getting serious. Now if only they could all get along.
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Why Cancun Matters
Don't buy into the apathy about this year's climate negotiations.