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Needed: Clean environment and good jobs—or we’ll have neither!
June 9, 2017Some viewed pollution as a blessing, a harbinger of jobs. Air that tasted of sulfur signified paychecks. But it meant early death.
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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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Cuba calls for universal health coverage at WHO meeting
May 26, 2017Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, Cuba's minister of Public Health, calls on world to strive toward universal health coverage for every person.
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