Truthout
Environment
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Rent in a Warming World
What's rent got to do with climate change? More than you might think.
CIA and NSA Wrongdoing Requires Independent Investigation, Says Former Church Committee Staff
Burt Wides, a former chief investigator for the Church Committee, who helped create the Senate and House intelligence committees, says these oversight bodies are now too entwined with the …
Hundreds of Tribal Representatives Join Huge Rally to Oppose Fracking
Hundreds of indigenous people from California and across the country gathered with a crowd of over 4000 activists at the State Capitol in Sacramento on March 15 to send …
The Breaking of a Power Monopoly: Community Choice?
PG&E has had a monopoly on the energy needs of Northern California since 1905. But a new state government entity promises to turn over most conventional wisdom of who …
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Sri Lanka Bans Monsanto Herbicide Citing Potential Link to Deadly Kidney Disease
Sri Lanka this week ordered a ban on glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's top-selling herbicide Roundup.
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The Woman Who Took Birth Control
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Nukes Now: Obama Worse Than Reagan
Heads-up, veterans of the nuclear freeze movement, anti-Euromissile campaigns and anti-nuke efforts in New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Incoming.
Saturated With Oil Money, Texas Legislature Saved Industry From Pollution Rule
The Texas legislature's rush to protect the oil and gas industry reflects a culture in which politics and business are almost inseparable.
Abrupt Climate Change: No Bioperturbation
“Climate change” is not the most critical issue facing society today; abrupt climate change is.
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Remembering Tony Benn
Take a moment, please, to note the passing of a distinguished spokesman for the left, a man both firebrand and gadfly, of whom many Americans have never even heard.