Environment
Miners’ families welcome indictment of Massey Energy CEO Blankenship
November 14, 2014A federal grand jury indicted the former Massey Energy CEO on numerous counts of conspiracy in the Apr. 2010 underground explosion that killed 29 men.
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Climate agreement with China kills major rightwing argument against carbon curbs
November 13, 2014The new agreement removes one of the right wing's major arguments against action to curb global warming.
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UN climate report: No new news, mostly bad news
November 3, 2014The new report breaks no new ground. This report is a summary of the three reports already issued, which focused in much more detail on specific aspects of the science.
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Recycling workers say “enough!”
November 3, 2014Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they'd had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination.
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A “field of dreams” takes root in West Oakland
October 29, 2014After the urban farm is up and running, further plans include a fitness center, a tech business, a juice bar, athletic shoe and clothing manufacturing companies.
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