Environment
Trump names BP oil spill lawyer as top environmental attorney
June 8, 2017The nominee defended BP in lawsuits surrounding the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and challenged the Obama administration over greenhouse gas rules.
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Who’ll take San Onofre’s nuclear trash?
June 8, 2017To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we know who speaks for the nuclear industry. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for the Earth?
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions bans funding for environmental cleanups
June 8, 2017Sessions has banned all future settlements of pollution violation cases that include money for cleanup efforts managed by third-party organizations.
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Judge DAPL, aka Judge Boasberg, sits on pipeline case as oil begins to flow
June 7, 2017In the past few weeks there have been three separate leaks in the tentative pipeline occurring before it was fully operational.
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Capitalism is destructive and unsustainable – It needs to be replaced
June 6, 2017Capitalism's many crises are reaching dangerous tipping points. They are rooted in a path of destructive and unsustainable development.
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