by Sarah Laskow. In DC, protests against the Keystone XL pipeline began this weekend . The first round of protesters that cops arrested sat in jail through the weekend, longer than police had said they'd be detained . The area around Fukushima has levels of radioactivity so high, it could be uninhabitable for decades . The U.K. cycling industry contributes more than $4.7 billion to the country's economy each year. Cutting carbon will create , not kill, jobs. Mitt Romney might believe in global warming, but it doesn't seem like he believes in doing much about it on a political or a personal level: He's building a new house in California triple the size of his old one. We're guessing it's not going to be an energy efficient Passivhaus, either.

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