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Fracking Protests Continue in Texas as New ALEC-Backed Law Bars Towns From Banning Drilling
The city of Denton, Texas, is in a showdown with Big Oil after it tried to pass a ban on fracking within its city limits
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: 1.2 Million People Found Jobs in Renewable Energy in 2014, and More
In today's On the News segment: 1.2 million people found jobs in renewable energy last year alone; China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, reduced its coal use by about …
A Toxic Affair: How the Chemical Lobby Blocked Action on Hormone Disrupting Chemicals in the EU
A new report sheds light on how corporations and lobby groups have used tactics from the corporate lobbying playbook.
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Texas Lawmakers Are Busy Making It Harder to Vote
Texans should demand better.
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Okinawans Want Their Land Back. Is That So Hard to Understand?
Okinawa, which hosts 75 percent of US military bases in Japan, is balking at plans for another base.
More Than 300,000 Celebrate Archbishop Oscar Romero, 35 Years After US-Backed Murder
Romero was murdered by members of a US-backed death squad.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: A State of Emergency Has Been Declared in California Following Oil Spill, and More
Do you want to see more stories like this published? Click here to help Truthout continue doing this work! In today's On the News segment: A state of emergency …
Anthropology Apology
If you do not recycle your plastic, it can sit in landfills for a couple hundred years!
Pentagon Report Predicted West’s Support for Islamist Rebels Would Create ISIS
Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to “isolate” Assad and rollback “Shia expansion”.