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Two States Beef Up Oil-by-Rail and Pipeline Safety After String of Accidents
Other states that have surging oil-by-rail traffic and pipelines carrying tar sands are expected to consider similar safety requirements.

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Drowning in Profits: A Private Equity Firm, a Missing Pool Fence and the Price of a Child’s Death
The most controversial development in America's housing

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Dahr Jamail | Farming for the Future
On the outskirts of Houston, Texas, a small farm that runs a community-supported agriculture operation and offers educational programs, is preparing people for the intensifying impacts of anthropogenic climate …

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Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids Are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will
Carson Luke, a young boy with autism, shattered bones in his hand and foot after educators grabbed him and tried to shut him into a “scream room.” Kids across …

On the News With Thom Hartmann: GOP Considers Government Shutdown to Protect Big Oil, and More
The last government shut down cost our nation billions, but Republicans are thinking about doing it all over again just to protect Big Oil and the Coal Lobby, and …

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Credit Rating Industry Dodges Reforms, Despite Role in Financial Meltdown
Flaws in bond rating system that led to financial collapse remain.

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The Grim Reality of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
The recent surge in unaccompanied, undocumented minors apprehended at the US-Mexico border draws attention to the poverty and violence ravaging Latin America and the lack of resources available to …

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Bike Share: Safe or Not Safe? A New Study on Brain Trauma Raises Questions
As more and more cities add bike share programs, it's important that we talk about safety, and for a lot of people that discussion comes down to helmets.

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ACLU: Documents Show Effort of Police and US Marshals to Deceive Courts in Use of Controversial “Stringrays“
The ACLU has uncovered instructions from the US Marshals Service that appear to tell police to actively deceive judges and defendants about the use of the controversial surveillance tool …

Take a Walk on a Leaky Uintah Basin Oil Well With a Whistleblowing Oil and Gas CEO
In response to national news in late May that pointed to a potential cluster of stillborn births in the heavily drilled and fracked Uintah Basin, we take you inside …