by Sarah Laskow. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman subpoenaed three energy companies as part of an investigation into natural gas production estimates. If rats could abandon Ship Earth, they would right about now. Instead, species in the Northern Hemisphere are moving north at about a mile per year — three times faster than anyone imagined. Kick your caffeine habit now : climate change could make 60 percent of the places that now grow coffee inhospitable to the crop by 2050. Pennsylvania agencies can no longer contract for renewable energy. In Texas, oil and gas companies want to lay new pipelines so badly that they filed six times more lawsuits to settle with landowners this year, compared to last. Remember the orange goo in Alaska? It wasn't eggs, it was fungal spores . Not really sure which is more icky. An awesome picture of a solar thermal plant, from above.

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Critical List: New York AG going after natural gas companies; species move one mile north each year

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