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Never-Used Tax Credit Could Jumpstart US Offshore Wind Energy—if Renewed
Congress is considering overhauling a never-used tax credit for offshore wind energy instead of letting it expire at the end of next year, as was originally scheduled. …
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Arizona Puts Profit Over Prisoners’ Progress With New Fee
Imprisonment has always generated invisible inequalities. But new legislation in Arizona now forces families and friends of inmates to bear an extra burden and will end up creating more …
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NLRB Documents Shed Light on Boeing Fight in South Carolina
Washington - Lawyers for the federal labor agency fighting Boeing’s new factory in North Charleston, N.C., repeatedly joked among themselves about the dispute and exchanged a political cartoon portraying …
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Valero Poised to Export Keystone XL Crude Tax-Free
Valero Energy Corporation, a top U.S. refiner and one of the main backers of the failed effort to kill California’s climate laws, is poised to produce Keystone XL tar …
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Police Use Batons to Clear Occupy Berkeley Camps (Video)
Police resorted to violence and arrested 39 Occupy movement protesters on the University of California at Berkeley campus on Wednesday as they attempted to dismantle “Occupy Cal” encampments. Videos …
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US to Delay Decision on Pipeline Until After Election
Washington - The Obama administration is preparing to delay a decision on the contested Keystone XL pipeline while it studies an alternate route, effectively pushing any action past the …
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Social Justice Groups Engage Occupy Movement
Social justice organizations in the Bay Area are joining forces with the Occupy movements in Oakland and San Francisco. Local nonprofits that have been advocating for …
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Scientist Who Testified in Support of Mining Around the Grand Canyon Stands to Make $225,000 From It
As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Republican members of Congress have been waging a war to open 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon to uranium mining. Last week Secretary of …
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Microsoft Funds Koch’s Climate-Denying Tea Party Conference
Microsoft Corporation, which argues that climate pollution requires a “comprehensive and global response,” is sponsoring the Koch brothers’ Tea Party convention taking place in Washington, DC. Microsoft is a …
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IAEA’s “Soviet Nuclear Scientist” Never Worked on Weapons
Washington - The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by a Washington think tank Tuesday repeated the sensational claim previously reported by news media all over …