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Environment
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Former Oil Executive, Doctors and Scientists Urge Obama to Wait on Fracking Exports Plan
For the first time ever, the US has the ability to become a major exporter of natural gas, courtesy of the fracking boom.
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Gun Ownership Is a Hobby, Not a Right
The nationwide Constitutional protection for gun ownership only came into existence in 2010 (not 1791) and even then by one single vote.
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Lame Duck Congress
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Low-Wage Workers’ Wildcat Winter Spreads to Chicago
The newly-minted union in Chicago launched the Fight for 15 campaign to raise the standard of living for the more than 18,000 workers.
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Toward Zero Waste: Waste Pickers Running Bio-Gas Plants in Mumbai, India
SMS has successfully demonstrated the viability of decentralized waste management in one of the worldu2019s largest and most crowded cities.
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War on Science: Evolution, Climate Change, and the Curious House Committee on Science
What do many Republicans in the House of Representatives have in common with the 17th century Spanish Inquisition? Both have waged a war on science.
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Pakistan, Afghanistan Moving Ahead on Peace Plan That Cuts US Peace Role
Under the deal, the insurgents would have to renounce violence, cut ties to al Qaeda and
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Conservatives and Corporatists Hope to Spread Right-to-Work-for-Less Laws, and More
In today's On the News segment: Conservatives and corporatists hope to get more states to pass Right-to-Work-for-less laws, Victims of Hurricane Sandy are the latest hostages of the Republican …
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Parity
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The Terrible Cost of Not Fixing the Filibuster Sooner
Senate Democrats didnu2019t take on the filibuster head-on, so now obstruction is the expected norm.