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Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on US Government Forecasts for a Lasting Tight Oil and Shale Gas Boom
A worrisome reliance on the industry's point of view.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Scientists Say Climate Change Threatens Our Survival, and More
In today's On the News segment: Scientists say that climate change is threatening our very survival, and more.
Lack of Transparency Raises Serious Concerns About Planned Uranium Processing Facility
Federal officials have refused to publicly release information about the cost and scope of a planned Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) in Tennessee, even as the project moves toward the …
TPP Agreement Poses Threat of Internet Censorship
More than 300,000 internet users contributed to our crowdsourced vision for free expression online in the 21st century.
A Big Win for Climate Change Denial: Republicans to Target EPA Regulations After Taking Senate
With their newfound control of both houses of Congress, the Republican agenda includes a rollback of environmental regulations.
Corporate Mind Control, Killer Furniture, Bee Deaths and Whitewashing Vietnam
The Redacted team shows you ways to die that should scare you more than Ebola, cracks the corporate manipulation code, Boston-cremes its pants for Dunkin' Donuts and gets creative …
Jim Crow Returns: Interstate “Crosscheck” Program Could Strip Millions of the Right to Vote
Investigative journalist Greg Palast details how new voter ID laws risk disenfranchising millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters.
Chief Caleen Sisk: It’s All One Big Project
Tribal leaders and river and groundwater protection advocates on Monday, October 27, announced their strong opposition to Proposition 1, Governor Jerry Brown's controversial State Water Bond.
Goliath Gets Bigger: Prop. 1 War Chest Grows to $16.4 million
The big corporate money behind the water bond largely determines who the bond will benefit - billionaires, corporate agribusiness, oil companies and the 1 percent, not the people, fish …
FAIR TV: Time Magazine Fail, Climate Change Dodge and Erasing Non-Voters
FAIR TV covers Time magazine's attacks on public school teachers, new GOP tactics on climate change denial and campaign coverage.