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EPA will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant

September 5, 2009 By Susan Webb

The Environmental Protection Agency is set to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant, EPA head Lisa Jackson announced on Monday. That action would trigger federal regulation of industrial CO2 sources like coal-fired power plants, cars, refineries...

Missouri state capital rallies for health care reform

September 3, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky

JEFFERSON CITY, MO – “I was too expensive, so they got rid of me,” Robert Green told hundreds of rural Missourians who rallied for health care reform here on the Capital steps September 2.

Trumka draws line in the sand on health care

September 2, 2009 By John Wojcik

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, Richard Trumka, has drawn a line in the sand on health care reform, saying that Congress must include a strong public plan option in the final bill in order for labor to back it.

EPA will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant

September 2, 2009 By Susan Webb

The Environmental Protection Agency is set to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant, EPA head Lisa Jackson announced on Monday. That action would trigger federal regulation of industrial CO2 sources like coal-fired power plants, cars, refineries...

What’s behind the widening of our waistlines?

September 1, 2009 By John Wojcik

Love handles and bulging waistlines are a big problem in America that can only be solved, a growing number of politicians are telling us, with some hefty “fat taxes.”