by Sarah Laskow. Australia is going to have a carbon tax: The prime minister's plan just passed the country's senate. Not only do cars kill, so do commutes . A man in England dumped more than 1 million tires across the country. Heavy metals have contaminated 10 percent of farmland in China . Shorter Rick Perry : The government should stop picking energy winners and losers, unless the winners are oil and gas companies.

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