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Big Oil Can’t Go On Like This
The industry is scrambling to keep high dividends flowing, so they are scaling back to keep investors happy.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Radiation Levels at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant May Be Increasing, and More
In today's On the News segment: Radiation levels at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan may be increasing; the Trans-Pacific Partnership is even worse than we previously thought; …
After White House Rejects Keystone XL, Battle Against Larger Texas Pipeline Intensifies
A massive natural gas pipeline project in Texas is generating grassroots resistance among ranchers, artists, environmentalists and residents.
Alabama Community Demands EPA Recognize Environmental Racism as a Civil Wrong
From California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for the US Environmental Protection Agency to take a stand.
Mental Health Bill Caters to Big Pharma and Would Expand Coercive Treatments
The “Murphy Bill” appears to cater more to pharmaceutical companies.
Why the US Love Affair With Bottled Water Has to Stop
Last year, Americans drank more than 10 billion gallons of bottled water. Wildlife and the environment paid.
“Abandoned” by EPA: Landowners Demand Inclusion in EPA National Fracking Study
The EPA has undertaken a national study on the impacts that fracking can have on water supplies.
EPA Slow to Halt Use of Deadly Pesticide
A pesticide known as “DDT's cousin” is still being used in the United States, despite evidence of its toxic effects.
As State Politicians Resist Obama’s Climate Plan, West Virginians Build Renewables Anyway
So far, the state isn't stepping up to build a solar-powered future. That leaves the bulk of the work to residents.
Inside the Indigenous Movement to Protect India’s Commons
Communities in Uttar Pradesh in the east are organizing to protect their rivers, lands, forests and hills from “development”.