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Environment
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Seven of the Most Striking Ways States Have Loosened Gun Laws
More than half of the nation's deadliest shooting have happened in the past five years. During that same time, states have only made gun laws less strict.
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Former Oil Executive, Doctors and Scientists Urge Obama to Wait on Fracking Exports Plan
For the first time ever, the US has the ability to become a major exporter of natural gas, courtesy of the fracking boom.
Thousands Remain Displaced From Sandy Without Heat and Power
Residents desperate for government assistance for rebuilding and mold remediation seven weeks after Sandy.
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Gun Ownership Is a Hobby, Not a Right
The nationwide Constitutional protection for gun ownership only came into existence in 2010 (not 1791) and even then by one single vote.
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Lame Duck Congress
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Toward Zero Waste: Waste Pickers Running Bio-Gas Plants in Mumbai, India
SMS has successfully demonstrated the viability of decentralized waste management in one of the worldu2019s largest and most crowded cities.
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War on Science: Evolution, Climate Change, and the Curious House Committee on Science
What do many Republicans in the House of Representatives have in common with the 17th century Spanish Inquisition? Both have waged a war on science.
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Pakistan, Afghanistan Moving Ahead on Peace Plan That Cuts US Peace Role
Under the deal, the insurgents would have to renounce violence, cut ties to al Qaeda and
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Detroit: A Raisin in the Sun?
Council member Ken Cockrel must be trippin! On Tuesday, December 11, after he, along with Saunteel Jenkins, James Tate, Gary Brown, and Charles Pugh, voted to approve the ill-conceived …
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The Anti-Empire Report
The hurricanes, the typhoons, the heat waves ... the droughts, the heavy rains, the floods ... ever more powerful, ever new records being set. Something must be done of …