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On the News With Thom Hartmann: When Business and Politics Mix, the Public Pays the Price, and More
There's an important lesson to be learned from the ongoing coal ash disaster in North Carolina. When business and politics mix, the public pays the price, and more.
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Reckoning Time for Lawbreaking Utilities on Coal Ash?
Sue Sturgis breaks down the numbers in the latest coal ash dumping incidents.
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Boston Endangered: Time To Close the Pilgrim Reactor
The 42-year-old Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, only 35 miles from Boston, poses unacceptable threats to human and environmental safety.
DREAM Act Narrowly Fails in NY Senate After Gov. Andrew Cuomo Failed to Push Passage
The New York State Senate has rejected a bill that would have provided tuition assistance to undocumented immigrant college students.
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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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