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Debate on Proposed Alaska Mine Waste Storage Facility Spreads the Myth of “Monitoring in Perpetuity“
Some of the world's greatest disasters have resulted from failed and inadequate monitoring systems.
Fracking’s Health Calamities Left to Fester
Despite slick PR campaign, fracking is turning huge parts of American into toxic industrial zones.
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French Study Finds Tumors and Organ Damage in Rats Fed Monsanto Corn
The study could majorly impact the battle over a California ballot proposal that would require groceries containing GE ingredients to be labeled.
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Romney’s “47 Percent:" Here’s Who’s Actually Not Paying Federal Taxes
The reason that more than 38 million, or roughly half of the 76 million households that paid no taxes last year, simply didnu2019t earn enough to have a tax …
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Warm Year
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Romney Calls 47% of Voters Dependent in Leaked Video
WASHINGTON — During a private reception with wealthy donors this year, Mitt Romney described almost half of Americans as “people who pay no income tax” and are "dependent upon …
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Five SCOTUS Cases That Could Be Overruled In A Romney Court, And Five That Could Be Overruled Under Obama
On Monday, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a report outlining many of the Supreme Court cases that could be overruled if President Obama appoints just one …
Fracking in Suburbia
About 79 gas wells have been drilled in Broadview Heights since 2005, including one well about 600 feet from Michelle Aini's house.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: International Report on Corrupt Democracies Issues Explicit Warning About US Politics, and More
In today's On the News segment: France will continue its ban of genetically modified food and natural gas hydrofracturing, and more.
How Coal Brought Us Democracy, and Oil Ended It: Lessons From the New Book “Carbon Democracy”
Long before politicians mewled helplessly about the power of u201cBig Oilu201d, carbon-based fuels were shaping our very political, legal, intellectual, and physical structures.