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Citing Oil Spill as Deciding Blow, Environment Concedes Defeat

Thursday, June 24, 2010

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Citing Oil Spill as Deciding Blow, Environment Concedes Defeat

In a tearful press conference on Thursday, the environment said it would finally have to concede defeat at the hands of humanity.

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Murkowski Proposes Resolution Blocking Agencies From Doing Agency Stuff

Thursday, June 10, 2010

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Murkowski Proposes Resolution Blocking Agencies From Doing Agency Stuff

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R—Alas.), fresh off her failure to block the Environmental Protection Agency from protecting the environment, has proposed another resolution with a much broader scope: it would block all government agencies from doing pretty much any of the stuff they're supposed to do.

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Whales of the World Launch “Krill Baby Krill” Campaign

Monday, May 10, 2010

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Whales of the World Launch “Krill Baby Krill” Campaign

In an apparent effort to jump on the oil spill pun bandwagon, a coalition of the world's baleen whales has launched a lobbying and advertising campaign sporting the slogan "Krill Baby Krill!"

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Earth Day Special: Recognizing the OTHER Enviro Groups

Thursday, April 22, 2010

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Earth Day Special: Recognizing the OTHER Enviro Groups

Here at TreeHumper, on Earth Day we would like to say thank you to some lesser known champions of the earth. Here is a rundown of some of environmental heroes working a bit more under the radar.

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Earth Day Swears It’s Turning “A Young 36″

Monday, April 5, 2010

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Earth Day Swears It’s Turning “A Young 36″

In spite of widespread publicity on Earth Day's impending 40th birthday, the worldwide celebration of all things environmentally friendly insisted it is only turning 36 years old on April 22.

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Video: The Craziness That Was Earth Hour 2009

Friday, March 26, 2010

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The Lorax put together this little retrospective on Earth Hour 2009 last year, brought out now in advance of the 2010 version. Saving the planet, one dumb joke at a time!

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Breaking: Passage of Health Care Reform Doesn’t Mean Shit for Climate Bill

Monday, March 22, 2010

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Breaking: Passage of Health Care Reform Doesn’t Mean Shit for Climate Bill

In a historic vote on Sunday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping reform of the health care system in this country. Almost immediately, pundits began hypothesizing on the effect that this progressive success will have on another of President Obama's goals, a comprehensive climate and energy bill. The consensus is that no one has any fucking idea.

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Nuclear Waste to be Stored at Disney’s Big Thunder Mountain

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Nuclear Waste to be Stored at Disney’s Big Thunder Mountain

The Department of Energy withdrew its decades-old application to turn Yucca Mountain in Nevada into a permanent nuclear waste storage facility, but quickly replaced it with a new site: Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland.

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Maldives Orders a “Shit-Ton” of Sandbags

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Maldives Orders a “Shit-Ton” of Sandbags

An international purchase agreement revealed yesterday that the low-lying island nation of the Maldives has ordered an extremely large number of sandbags from multiple companies in the United States and Europe. A representative of the Maldives government responded to an e-mail question of what the bags are for as follows: "We are expecting a bit of flooding."

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Editorial: We Were Wrong When We Called IPCC’s Pachauri a Testicle

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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Editorial: We Were Wrong When We Called IPCC’s Pachauri a Testicle

Not so long ago, the TreeHumper investigative team did some in-depth reporting on the ClimateFence scandal. One of our revelations was that the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri is actually "one half of a set of anthropomorphized testicles." Like any good journalist or human being, we can man up to it and say: We were wrong.

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