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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
On Friday, President Obama discussed his plans for a Homestar program, which is designed to provide financial incentives for homeowners that...

A new Gallup poll suggests that more Americans agree on a bill that supports solar and other "alternative" energy sources than any other policy idea.

Almost 25 percent of state legislators don't have a bachelor's degree. Does America need lawmakers with more schooling?

KeepTheWebOpen functions like a combination of Wikipedia and any familiar commenting system: Click a sentence in the bill and add your changes.
When this catastrophic oil spill first happened, it seemed obvious that it would galvanize opposition to offshore drilling and, by providing a...

The senator who believes heterosexual sex can't result in HIV transmission is now banned from a Knoxville eatery.
Yesterday, the Center for Public Integrity released a report on a new lobbying industry springing up in Washington: The climate change lobby. Not...

Follow this concerned mom through every room of her suburban house as she recites lies in support of a law that would destroy California's climate.

Good news: California is creating the largest cap-and-trade system in the world (outside of Europe, of course).

New York state creates a new law to help companies do well by doing good.
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Wal-Mart has almost taken over the eastern part of the United States. Every dot represents a Wal-Mart. There must be places where Wal-Marts are...
Wal-Mart has announced that they'll be drastically expanding their organic offerings. Organic products will only cost 10% more than their...
We like to talk a lot of trash about Wal-Mart, because it's a pretty easy big box straw man to knock over. But maybe we're wrong. We're not going...
You can destroy the environment on your own time, but you are sure as hell not going to use Wal-Mart as an excuse. The store is pushing CFLs hard,...
This diverting quiz tests your ability to distinguish the work of modern artist Donald Judd from Wal-Mart dorm furniture. We got 75%. Anyone out...

Even George W. Bush's economics adviser says that the act passed today in the House won't bring down the price of gas.
Thirty years of Wal-Mart's informal, internal company videos have been put on sale. Flagler, the video-production company Wal-Mart hired to record...
The Big Blue-green Monster: Wal-Mart is pushing us toward sustainability more than you could ever imagine. In 2005, Wal-Mart was a piñata that...
Six months after announcing plans to tack a score from a "sustainability index" on products sold in Wal-Mart stores, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Dell, HP,...