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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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Don’t Buy Into Generational Warfare: Keep the Super Committee Accountable to the 99 Percent
The 12-member Super Committee is down to its final two weeks to produce a plan to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal budget. According to recent reports, …
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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 …
Protest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism
Occupy San Francisco, October 15, 2011. (Photo: Eric Wagner) From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal …
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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 …
Why is the Oakland Police Department Hiding the Truth About Its Violent Crackdown on the Occupy Protests?
After three notably violent crackdowns on protesters in as many weeks, Oakland Police Department officials have refused a request by the ACLU of Northern California to release police reports …
Who is Judge Richard Leon?
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon handed the tobacco industry a big victory by blocking a new federal requirement that cigarette packs carry graphic warning labels. Though …