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Did RuPaul just announce he has a fracking empire on his ranch?

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 NewsEditorEnvironment, Fossil fuels, Fracking, npr, RuPaul, Television & radio, US news, Wyoming

The host of RuPauls Drag Race revealed recently that he leases the mineral rights of the 60,000 acres he owns in Wyoming to oil companies RuPaul, of the beloved RuPauls Drag Race television show, said in a recent interview that he leases the mineral and water rights of his land in Wyoming to oil companies. In an interview with NPRs Terry Gross on her show Fresh Air (the irony), Gross asked RuPaul about the 60 acres of land he owns in Wyoming. Oh, no, no no. No, no, no. Sixty…

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From renewables to Netflix: the 15 super-trends that defined the 2010s

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 NewsEditor#MeToo movement, Austerity, business, Digital media, e-cigarettes, Economics, energy, Environment, Football, Fossil fuels, Fracking, gas, Health, Life and style, Media, Mental health, Migration, Mobile phones, Netflix, Plastics, Renewable Energy, Smartphones, Smoking, Social Media, Society, Sport, Technology, Telecoms, Transgender, Veganism, women, Women's football, World news

It was the decade of austerity, fracking, populism and internet lies. But not everything about the 2010s was terrible The plastics backlash Garbage, including plastic waste, is seen at the beach in Costa del Este, Panama City. Photograph: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images It was once the height of metropolitan chic: the dash into Starbucks for a skinny decaf caramel latte en route for work, the takeaway cup a mark of upward mobility. Those were the days of Sex and the City, when the culture of doing everything on the…