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Innocent people will be executed in the US if the country's capital punishment system is not reformed, warns a new report from the Constitution Project.

Residents go up against Louisiana's strong laws protecting the oil and gas industry.

The White House is finally on the solar grid, in response to prodding by environmentalists.

Since the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment includes the right to bear arms in self defense, guns rights advocates, led by the NRA, have challenged …

Until recently it was inconceivable for small groups of organized citizens in fully electrified industrialized countries like Spain to generate their own power from clean sources of energy, challenging …

Climate change is real and is impacting every corner of the nation right now, says a report released yesterday by the Obama administration.

Stanford University's Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to stop investing in coal-mining companies because of climate change concerns.

When residents in the Quebec town of Lac-Mu00e9gantic describe the scene after an oil-train derailed and then exploded there last July, they say the burning petroleum was like a …

Every year, 65,000 undocumented youth graduate from US high schools. Brought to the country as children, and with immigration reform stalled in Washington, they are caught in limbo.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to introduce a bill that would allow graduates to refinance their loans at lower rates.