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Environment
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America’s New Killing Field: Murder-Suicide on a Global Scale
It now seems that America's newest war zone is Earth itself as fracking and the pursuit of profit puts the entire planet on the brink of destruction.
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Government by Crisis (Always Crashing in the Same Car)
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Community Leads its Own Relief Efforts in the Rockaways
Rockaway residents get to know each other, show ingenuity while working in solidarity to provide relief from devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy and the apparent indifference/incompetence of state relief …
Debate on Controversial Natural Gas Drilling Technique as New York Moratorium May Expire
New research by NOAA and the U. of Colorado says methane - a potent greenhouse gas - may be escaping from gas sites at much higher rates than previously …
Neoliberalizing Nature and Privatizing the Air
Climate writer Patrick Bond: In 2013 bankers will increase their efforts to make money out of the climate crisis and put a dollar value on everything.
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“Promised Land” Gives Only Partial Picture of Fracking’s Negative Consequences
Contamination of land and water is addressed; less so fracking's links to climate change, earthquakes, other problems.
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Don’t Feed The Debt-Ceiling Trolls
As conservative right-wing politicians continue to bring down our economy by refusing to raise the debt-ceiling limit, maybe the answer is simply to call their bluff.
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Why Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President
Maybe if we go fast enough even this all-too-patient president will get caught up in the draft. But weu2019re not waiting for him. We canu2019t.
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FDA Offers Broad New Rules to Fight Food Contamination
It is a long-awaited step toward codifying the food safety law that Congress passed two years ago.
Meet Anthony Ingraffea – From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent
Dr. Anthony Ingraffea: My position is this. Where shale gas development has not yet occurred, ban it. Period.