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Fracking Blowout Causes Massive Spill in Pennsylvania
Thousands of gallons of potentially toxic hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” liquids spilled across pastures and into a stream in rural Pennsylvania early this morning, after a natural gas well …
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Gassy Geezer Pushes Fossil Fuel
This weekend, as 10,000 energetic, bright, young people are converging on Washington, DC, for PowerShift 2011, a geezer* is waging an all-out assault on their future. Eighty-two-year-old Texas fossil-fuel-pushing …
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How Many Chernobyls Before We Get It?
A stenciled figure by the elevators in a sixteen story residential building facing the central square of Pripyat, a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern …
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Japan Facing Biggest Catastrophe Since Dawn of Nuclear Age
Japan remains in a state of emergency three days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the country. An estimated 10,000 people have died, and Japan is facing the …
Dean Baker: Budget Cuts Are the Real Job-Killers (Video)
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Libyan Rebels Said to Repulse Mercenary Attack
Opposition fighters attend their first day of training at an overtaken military base in Benghazi, Libya, March 1, 2011. (Photo: Lynsey Addario / The New York Times) …
History of US-Libya Relations Indicates US Must Tread Carefully as Uprising Continues
A Libyan man at the looted al La Braq airport steps on the broken portrait of Col. Muammar Gadhafi in an act of disrespect on February 23, 2011. (Photo: …
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Saboteur: An Interview With a Domestic Insurgent
(Image: Trine Day) I first met the man we'll call Trucker in 1970 at a rally against the Vietnam War. Our demo was going to start on …
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EXCLUSIVE: BP Executive Turned Alyeska Pipeline Into “Deeply Distressed” Company, Confidential Report Says
Alyeska Pipeline, the BP-led consortium that operates the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), has implemented deep budget cuts, deferred work on a number of important maintenance and upgrade …