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Environment & Health
Stuck in the Bluff: The Controversy of Needle Exchange Programs
With hundreds of programs across the US and throughout the world, some states still view distributing needles as illegal.
Do Humans Have a Madness Gene That Will Ensure the End of the Planet as We Know It?
Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert explores the likely extinction of a massive number of species - because of the destructive practices of humans - in the book "The Sixth Extinction: An …
Oil Spill Threatens Wildlife and Local Economy
Though the clean up is progressing, it will take weeks to determine the extent of the ecological impact of the major Galveston oil spill.
SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, Selected as a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year
SOIL is proud to announce that SOIL’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, was selected as a 2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Every year the …
Following DOE Approval, LNG Opponents Call on Oregon’s Governor to Protect the State’s Rivers and Ratepayers
The US Department of Energy took the long-expected step of granting a conditional export license to the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project in Oregon.
How Fallujah Became the Iraqi Government’s New Battleground
Journalist Dahr Jamail discusses how the Iraqi city of Fallujah went from welcoming American intervention to fighting the US-backed Iraqi government.
NASA Climate Predictions Show Serious Threat to Humanity
Dahr Jamail says that though some journalists avoid linking weather patterns to climate change, global warming still exists.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: When Business and Politics Mix, the Public Pays the Price, and More
There's an important lesson to be learned from the ongoing coal ash disaster in North Carolina. When business and politics mix, the public pays the price, and more.
DREAM Act Narrowly Fails in NY Senate After Gov. Andrew Cuomo Failed to Push Passage
The New York State Senate has rejected a bill that would have provided tuition assistance to undocumented immigrant college students.
CIA and NSA Wrongdoing Requires Independent Investigation, Says Former Church Committee Staff
Burt Wides, a former chief investigator for the Church Committee, who helped create the Senate and House intelligence committees, says these oversight bodies are now too entwined with the …