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Pinkwashing Fracking? How the Komen Board Is Cashing in on Shale Gas
Who, then, are the men behind Komenu2019s curtain?
Election Countdown 2012: Thousands of Absentee Ballots Were Discarded in Key West Due to Voter Negligence
Mission elapsed time: T + 34 and counting* “The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.” …
BP Amnesia: Life and Death After the Spill
Environmentalists worry that collective amnesia, flawed energy policy and the hot pursuit of oil will fail to prevent another catastrophic spill.
Lack of State and Federal Oversight of Offshore Fracking Could Imperil the Santa Barbara Coastline
While a drilling company with an erratic history and cavalier leadership leverages expansion of its onshore operations with ocean drilling by the risky and increasingly notorious method of hydraulic …
Election Countdown 2012: #Occupy Arrests From October 2011 Ruled Unconstitutional, and More
This week in the Election Countdown: Associate Judge Thomas Donnelly ruled the October 2011 arrests were unconstitutional because the city routinely chooses not to enforce the curfew for events the …
Governor Brown Signs Human Right to Water Bill
Governor Jerry Brown yesterday signed historic legislation establishing a state policy that every Californian has a human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible drinking water.
Election Countdown 2012: Selma City Council Votes to Stop Monument to KKK Leader, and More
This week in the Election Countdown: Green Party nominee Jill Stein tours around various colleges in California this week; A 2009 lawsuit filed by former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader …
Election Countdown 2012: Anti-Occupy Wall Street Rally Claims Power is Not on Wall Street, but in DC, and More
This week in the Election Countdown, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art has been accused of violating its rental policy by allowing Mitt Romney to hold a campaign …
Fracking’s Health Calamities Left to Fester
Despite slick PR campaign, fracking is turning huge parts of American into toxic industrial zones.
Getting Real on Jobs and the Environment: Pipelines, Fracking, or Clean Energy?
Politics has pushed President Obama away from the green agenda and towards fossil fuels, but fracking and pipelines are not the answer to our nation's energy dilemma.