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Amid Dakota Access Protests, Tribes Continue to Pursue Clean Energy
Seven Sioux tribes in the Dakotas are developing what would be an enormous collection of wind farms on six reservations.
Critics Call $3 Billion Sabal Trail Pipeline Florida’s Dakota Access Pipeline
Another pipeline project at the other end of the US is quietly being installed as fast as possible.
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Teacher Shortages Are Looming, but It Doesn’t Need to Be This Way
Teaching was deliberately feminized over a century ago so that public school teachers could be paid less.
Oklahoma Political Elite Fan the Flames of Environmental Deregulation in Trump’s US
Is this the countdown to the next Wounded Knee?
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Fast Food Nation: Trump Set to Name Minimum Wage-Hating Burger Czar as Labor Secretary
Andrew Puzder has been an outspoken critic of some of the Obama administration's most prominent labor initiatives.
Great Barrier Reef Suffered Worst Coral Die-Off on Record in 2016
In the northern region of the Great Barrier Reef, about 67 percent of the corals have died over the last eight to nine months.
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Shutting Down the Panopticon: A Report From Inside the Stateville Correctional Center
Prisoners at the roach-infested and noisy Stateville panopticon prison may soon be moving to other facilities.
Defiant After Dakota Setback, Texas Company Eyes Pipeline Through Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin
Energy Transfer Partners appears to have a powerful ally in Republican Trump.
Playing Defense: How Progressives Could Push Democrats to Block the Trump Agenda
Progressives now have more power within the Democratic Party, which activists must push to be more militant.
Michigan Election Officials Refuse to Recount Thousands of Ballots in State’s Communities of Color
Fifty-nine percent of Detroit's precincts disqualified.