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Basing Our Economy on Fossils Is Stupid
Researchers at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration report that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere underwent one of its largest single-year jumps ever in 2012.
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On Climate, Defense Could Preserve and Protect, Rather Than Kill and Destroy
The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions, but almost nothing on the existential threat of the millennium.
Climate Change and Protecting Environment is a Social Justice Issue
New book exposes relationship between environmental degradation and inequality of wealth and power.
The Lowdown in Portlandia: Austerity Versus a People’s Budget
Portlandu2019s Mayor Charlie Hales has announced that there is a $25 u2013 $40 million hole in the cityu2019s budget.
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We’re All Women Workers Now: How the Floor of the Economy Has Dropped for Everyone
The jobs currently held by all workers are beginning to look more like stereotypical u201cwomenu2019s work.u201d
Fracking Industry Propaganda Battles Science in Obama’s New Energy Pick
MIT's Energy Initiative has received more than $125 million dollars from fossil fuel firms since 2006.
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Why You Don’t Frack With John Lennon’s Farm
When fracking hits close to home, big names find common ground with small towns.
US Climate Bomb is Ticking: What the Gas Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
The history, science, economics and politics of hydraulic shale gas fracking.
What the McCarthy and Moniz Nominations Really Say About Obama’s Climate Policy
With Obama's Keystone XL decision still weeks away, Truthout's Mike Ludwig offers an analysis of what the new heads of EPA and DOE portend for the administration's direction on …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Americans Are Already Feeling the Pinch of Austerity, and More
Only 4 days after the March 1st Sequester deadline, people around our nation are already starting to feel the pinch of austerity; Republican lawmakers in Texas don't care if …