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British Petroleum had a fail-safe system for it's Deepwater Horizon floating deep-water drilling rig. You know, the one that blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving …

This past Wednesday marked another Workers Memorial Day - a day when organized labor and its allies honor the millions of men and women who've needlessly suffered or died …

In memory of B.C. She wheeled into the coffee shop, pulled up next to me, and pushed a piece of paper my way. “Take a look,” she said. It …

The Republican Party finally acknowledged on Wednesday that they are unwilling to alienate voters by continuing to block even debate on Wall Street reform. The good news: Democrats do …

“We are many and they are few — and today they have to deal with us!” yelled an organizer at a San Francisco march and rally on Tuesday afternoon …

There is a myth in wide circulation that the superiority of free trade is simply a settled question on which all serious economists agree. The flip side of this …

Over the last few years I've noticed something interesting about our ongoing climate change discussions. It used to be that logic and knowledge were the keys. We looked at …

Buenos Aires, Argentina — Oil is spreading across the Gulf of Mexico — the result of the sinking of an oil rig last week. A spill of this magnitude …

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently asked the National Academy of Sciences to study cancer risk for people living near nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities, and details of …

Washington — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday designated a widening oil slick pill in the Gulf of Mexico as “a spill of national significance” as government officials …