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Senators Try to Kill EPA Effort to Reduce Mercury and Toxic Air Pollution
The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a Republican proposal to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from implementing new rules that would reduce the amount of dangerous …
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Spotlight G-20: Mexico’s Surreal Leadership on Food Security
Whatu2019s surreal is listening to Mexicou2019s Agriculture Minister, Francisco Mayorga, speaking last Wednesday to an international conference on u201cNew Paradigms for Agriculture,u201d describe without a hint of irony or …
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Mom-Turned-Activist Launches National Movement to Boycott GMOs
Diana Reeves started a group called GMO Free USA which plans to pressure food manufacturers into revealing which of their products contain GMOs. The ultimate goal is to organize …
Exclusive: Interview With Chris Hayes
"The tragic irony of the Obama years so far is that he inherited a country that was entering a crisis that the meritocracy produced, one that's bigger than the …
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Election Countdown 2012: Human Rights Envoys Call on US Officials to Explain the Use of Excessive Force on Occupy Protesters, and More
In today's Election Countdown 2012 news: Two UN human rights envoys called on US officials to explain the use of excessive force on Occupy protesters, the National Research Council …
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Wisconsin’s Alien Seed: There Can Be No Joy in the Fact That Money Rules
Walker will get to stay in office for the rest of his term, but he didn't win the election u2014 money did.
Election Countdown 2012: The UN Puts Canada on the Human Rights Watch List, and More
The UN puts Canada on the human rights watch list; Ohio wants to open up the state's forests and parks to fracking; Philadelphia's Green Party takes a firm stand …
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Hundreds Protest Fracking in Ohio as Drilling Expands
The protesters marched through downtown Columbus and temporarily occupied the front hall of the Ohio Statehouse.
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Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won
The book effectively tells a story of greed and corruption in one small town that actually had also swept like a hurricane through hundreds of other communities in the …