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Five Things About Canada Every American Climate Activist Should Know
Canadians and Americans must unite in the name of climate justice and political action.
Mary Anne Grady Flores and the Drones of Upstate New York
Mary Anne Grady Flores, a 58-year-old grandmother of three, was sentenced to a year in jail after photographing an anti-drone protest outside a military base near her home.
NSA Creates Google-Like Search Engine to Help Other Agencies Access Collected Phone, Email Records
The search tool, known as ICReach, is designed to share more than 850 billion records - that is more than twice the number of stars in the Milky Way.
Greasing the Path to Military Intervention
As the Kurds have learned, oil can instantly heal longstanding rifts.
Climate Crisis Connects Us, Climate Justice Requires Unity
What do rigged corporate trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Treaty, an international climate agreement to be signed in 2015, have in common?
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Auto Mileage Reports Should Reflect Reality
With accurate and complete information, buyers can easily choose the cleaner cars that the Obama administration's mileage-and-emissions standards force automakers to build.
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The Time for Burning Coal Has Passed
It's high time to plan the coal phase-out now and show the people in the region a future beyond the inevitable end of dirty fossil fuels.
Summer of Market Basket
Illustrator Sarah Rosenblatt depicts supermarket workers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire walking off the job after beloved president and part-owner gets is pushed out, which ignites a firestorm that …
With This Decade’s Climate Policy, Expect More Warming Than if Nothing Was Done at All
Since 1986, we have emitted as much carbon dioxide as we emitted in the prior 236 years, yet climate policy has only become approximately 13 percent more stringent.
Reflecting on Ferguson: When the Cops’ Safety Is “Number One“
After St. Louis police shot and killed another young black man not far from Ferguson where Michael Brown was killed, law enforcement officials are reiterating that police officer safety …