Truthout
Environment
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Blood, Oil and “The American Dream“
Something is rotten in the state… -Hamlet In our times, in a media-saturated culture in which well-packaged and comforting lies are explicitly preferred to unsettling truths, those who reveal …
As Texas Pipeline Blockade Continues, Activists Challenge First US Tar Sands Strip Mine in Utah
As a direct action blockade of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline continues in Texas, we look at what could be the first actual tar sands and oil …
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Big Food Behemoths Embarrass Their Organic Offshoots
Big Food's mobilization against California's right-to-know law is making more green-minded consumers aware of the companies that own their favorite brands.
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Poisoned Apple, 2012
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The Climate Change Denying, Tobacco/DDT Advocate Henry Miller and the No on 37 Campaign
A campaign bankrolled by financially motivated pesticide and junk food companies is expected to lie - a lot. It's what they always do when confronted by inconvenient facts and …
The War of Extraction
Let us embrace an ideal and battle to extend the social contract to environmental rights. u00a0
Federal Government Selling Wild Horses to Western Dealer Linked to Slaughter
In a new investigation, ProPublica reporter Dave Philipps tracks what happens to many of the wild horses rounded up in the western United States by the Bureau of Land …
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Phoenix City Council Considering Local ID for Undocumented Immigrants
The information on a city-issued ID might preclude officers from having to contact ICE.
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Best Line of the Debate
President Barack Obama during the presidential debate with at the University of Denver, in Denver, October 3, 2012. (Photo: Matthew Staver / The New York Times)I think President Obama …
Nuclear Plant Owner Proposes Restarting Damaged Reactor
Southern California Edison (SCE), the operator of the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), has proposed to restart one of the facilityu2019s two damaged reactors without repairing or …