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Environment
Obama Nurtures His Base With Green Buildings Initiative
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton listen as Gary Le Francois, senior vice president and director of engineering, leads them on a tour of the Transwestern Building …
Move Your Money, Change the System
Occupy LA - November 5, 2011, Bank Transfer Day. (Photo: too many jennifers) Inspired by the Occupy movements around the country, nearly two-thirds of a million Americans …
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EPA Links Tainted Water in Wyoming to Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas
Denver - Chemicals used to hydraulically fracture rocks in drilling for natural gas in a remote valley in central Wyoming are the likely cause of contaminated local water supplies, …
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In the Euro Zone, Looming Catastrophe (2)
In an online post titled “Self-Serving Myths of Europe’s Neo-Calvinists,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an editor at the British newspaper The Telegraph, sends us to a very good essay from the …
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American Christmas
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Taking Abortion Corporate
A pro-choice rally. (Photo: Jon Chiang) Long before Merle Hoffman found her niche as a provider of reproductive health care, she sought to be extraordinary. The question …
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Sebelius Overrules FDA Decision to Widen Access to Morning-After Pill
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, at a briefing at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington, on May 27, 2010. (Photo: Luke Sharrett …
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CELAC: Speaking for Latin America and the Caribbean
On Saturday, December 3rd – while most of the U.S. media was focused on the political demise of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and the growing financial meltdown in …
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Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan to Replace Immigrant Workers With Prisoners
ThinkProgress has been reporting on the catastrophic economic consequences of Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law. Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama’s agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created …
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Mine Owner to Pay $200 Million in Death of 29 Men
In what officials say is the largest ever settlement in a government investigation of a mine disaster, Alpha Natural Resources agreed to pay $209 million in restitution and civil …