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Discover how politics can impact the environment, from U.N. climate talks to state legislation to local plastic bag bans.

  • MNN week in review

    Sat, Nov 07, 2009 8:32 AM

    Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Nov. 1-7.

  • Zac Goldsmith: Environmental Playboy for Parliament

    Tue, Nov 03, 2009 2:53 PM by Jeffrey Davis

    Britain may soon see its first multimillionaire playboy politician (who also happens to be an über green member of the Conservative Party).

  • Mayor proposes paying parents not to breed

    Mon, Nov 02, 2009 2:37 PM

    New Zealand mayor provokes outrage by suggesting that government should pay 'problem parents' not to have children.

  • MNN week in review

    Sat, Oct 31, 2009 9:42 AM

    Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Oct. 25-31.

  • Governator drops the eff bomb in hidden code

    Thu, Oct 29, 2009 11:56 AM by Shea Gunther

    In a note to the California State Assembly explaining a veto on a seemingly minor bill, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hides a secret second message that would get his mouth washed with soap in some homes.

  • Is Schwarzenegger sidestepping California's environmental policy for a football stadium?

    Wed, Oct 28, 2009 6:55 PM by Jeffrey Davis

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may be bending the rules to get a privately funded NFL stadium built in the city of Industry.

  • Iron City officially less gritty

    Wed, Oct 28, 2009 9:35 AM by Katy Rank Lev

    Allegheny County leader enacts sustainability policy for area surrounding Pittsburgh.

  • Media Mayhem: Limbaugh's 'fatwa' against the New York Times' Andrew Revkin

    Mon, Oct 26, 2009 5:26 AM by Ken Edelstein

    How can you blame the master of talk radio for suggesting that an elitist environmental reporter kill himself?

  • MNN week in review

    Sat, Oct 24, 2009 8:16 AM

    Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Oct. 18-24.

  • Rush Limbaugh says suicide is a good way to fight climate change

    Fri, Oct 23, 2009 7:55 AM by Jeffrey Davis

    Rush Limbaugh responds to a New York Times climate change reporter who said that population increase is a big contributor to climate change, saying that he should just go ahead and kill himself then...to help the planet.

  • Medicare drug planners now lobbyists

    Thu, Oct 22, 2009 10:57 AM by ProPublica.org

    Twenty-five key players in the Medicare Plan D bill are back, only this time, they're lobbying to protect the lucrative system from health care reform.

  • MNN week in review

    Sat, Oct 17, 2009 8:16 AM

    Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Oct. 11-17.

  • Five good green ideas from the U.S. government

    Five good green ideas from the U.S. government

    Fri, Oct 16, 2009 11:21 PM by Shea Gunther

     Five good green ideas from the U.S. government.

  • Inauguration photo gallery: A new day dawns

    Inauguration photo gallery: A new day dawns

    Fri, Oct 16, 2009 11:21 PM by Sarah Hicks

    Browse photographs of the events surrounding Inauguration Day, when Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States.

  • Pittsburgh to play host again

    Fri, Oct 16, 2009 4:20 PM by Katy Rank Lev

    U.N. selects city to host World Environment Day 2010.

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