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Royal Caribbean's new "green" mega-liner still burns the world's dirtiest fuel. Can the cruise industry clean up its act? Table of Contents | Digital Edition
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Can the Cruise Industry Clean Up Its Act?
By Michael Behar | From the Mag
May 23, 2012: Royal Caribbean wants its new ship to show that the world's second-largest cruise operator is ready to change a dirty business. Can it be done? (0) Comments
Adam Aston
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Meet the Change Makers: Starbucks's Quest for a Better Cup
Bob Deans
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The Right Wing vs. The Pentagon
George Black
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Coal on a Roll
Keith Schneider
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Digs In
Solvie Karlstrom
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The Planet Was Not Harmed During the Making of This Film
Ted Genoways
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Tar Sands Showdown
This Brand Is Your Brand
By Rob Walker | Living Green
May 23, 2012: One writer imagines a consumer world where the hot "brand' is made up of already-owned items. (0) Comments
The Barnstormer
By Paul Tullis | Q&A
May 23, 2012: Our agricultural policy used to be designed with farmers in mind. Then Big Ag took it over. Can it be won back? (0) Comments
Growing Pains: Scenes from the North Dakota Drilling Boom
By Keith Schneider | Web Exclusive
May 21, 2012: The transition from small town to boomtown is rarely a smooth one, and as the oil and gas business thrives in North Dakota, so do environmental and social problems. (0) Comments
Game Over for Climate? Let's Hope for Extra Innings
By George Black | The Edge
May 17, 2012: Wacky weather takes climate change out of the realm of the abstract and into everyday life. And one weatherman is bringing the issue home. (3) Comments
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
By Jason Tanz | Reviews
April 30, 2012: The modern history of ExxonMobil is rife with international intrigue, political and economic misdirection, and a bullying insistence on profit above all else. A review of the new book by Steve Coll that exposes it all. (0) Comments
Oil Spill Whistleblower Settles, Takes Aim at Bigger Fish
By Ted Genoways | Web Exclusive
April 26, 2012: With the outcome of his trial in doubt, a Michigan cleanup worker who alleges a cover-up takes a deal -- but only on the condition that he can continue his crusade against the Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history. (2) Comments
Oil Spill Whistleblower Gets His Day in Court
By Ted Genoways | Web Exclusive
April 20, 2012: He claims he was ordered to cover up dirty crude from the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history. Now a jury will consider if he's a legitimate crusader or a publicity hound motivated by his own personal drama. (2) Comments
Living With the Gulf Oil Disaster, Two Years Later
By David Gessner | Web Exclusive
April 20, 2012: Many scientists said we'd have to wait a couple of years after the BP blowout to know the disaster's full impact. We're here. A look back at what we've learned (and haven't) and how the region is stil suffering. (3) Comments
Waiting for Supermom: Why Parents are Forced to Do the FDA’s Job
By Laura MacCleery | community blog
April 18, 2012: When the New York Times ran a snarky story (“Going to Extreme Lengths to Purge Household Toxins”) under a picture of my daughter, Maya, a few weeks ago describing my efforts to rid my home of toxic chemicals, you can bet the... read more > (2) Comments
It's Alive! Big Oil and Its Allies Refuse to Let Keystone XL Die
By Sarah Laskow | onearth blog
April 13, 2012: Once, the green movement's strategy for blocking the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline seemed simple enough: if the groups rallying against TransCanada’s 1,700-mile, $7 billion project could stop the State Department from... read more > (2) Comments
The Whistleblower, Part 3
By Ted Genoways | Web Exclusive
April 13, 2012: After a dramatic EPA meeting at which he revealed his secret shame -- and despite a campaign to intimidate him -- a fired oil spill cleanup worker continues his single-minded quest to prove that large pockets of tar sands crude were covered up in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. (4) Comments
The Whistleblower, Part 2
By Ted Genoways | Web Exclusive
April 12, 2012: After one of the worst inland oil spills in U.S. history, a fired cleanup worker turns crusader on a mission to expose what he calls a cover-up by the pipeline company and its contractors. But revelations about his past threaten to destroy his reputation -- and his credibility. (0) Comments