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Climate Crisis
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Resistance in Ohio, Fracking’s Dumping Ground
Ohio has become a fracking dumping ground, with 179 wells absorbing more than 1 billion gallons of hazardous wastewater from the process from several states, and now legislators and …
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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto’s Monopolistic Greed
As more people realize the struggle against Monsanto is one for human survival, a movement is building.
Racism and Classism Are Alive and Deadly: US Public Policies Create Environmental Injustice
Racism and classism still permeate the environmental movement and US agricultural policy, fomenting environmental injustice and often defeating the ultimate purposes of the environmental movement, as well as purported …
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Food, Farms, Forests and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
Billion-dollar fossil fuel and agribusiness corporations have brought us to the brink of a global calamity.
Climate Tipping Point? Concentration of Carbon Dioxide Tops 400 ppm for First Time in Human History
Scientists are warning the planet has now reached a grim climate milestone not seen for two or three million years.
Above All Else: A David and Goliath Story
Truthout interviews a filmmaker whose forthcoming documentary chronicles one landowner's fight against the Keystone XL.
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The Mines that Fracking Built, Part Two
Mike Ludwig continues to cover the impact of fracking across the country.
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Forest Service Seeks to Silence Smokey the Bear Over Fracking
An artist's use of the iconic Smokey the Bear for anti-fracking propaganda might land her jail time.
Changing Perspectives on US-Mexico Relations
Tom Barry writes on the important questions that still go unanswered in the ongoing debate between Mexico and the US.
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Another Government Is Necessary: The People Can Rule Better Than the Elites
On Earth Day, a new alternative government, the Green Shadow Cabinet, was announced. Its over 80 members are leaders in their fields, from medicine to art to activism, and …