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Pollution

Will This Court Case End the Mining Industry’s 150-Year Dominance of the West?

In Mother Jones

These widely used insecticides may be a threat to mammals too

In National Geographic

The Push for Tidal Power Faces Its Biggest Challenge Yet

in Smithsonian.

We Know Plastic Is Harming Marine Life: What about us?

in National Geographic

Idling Vigilante

An Upper West Side crank wages a lucrative war against air pollution.

In New York Magazine.

Chain Reaction

The same pesticides linked with bee declines might also threaten birds, in Audubon.

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